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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.