"Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex."
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Karl Marx quotes (page 20 of 21)
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"Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life."
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"The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction"
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"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood."
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"The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money."
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"I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents."
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"In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety."
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"All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force."
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"Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time."
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"In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition."
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"Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison."
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"As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."
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"To discover the various use of things is the work of history."
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"Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people."
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"Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life."
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"Moments are the elements of profit"
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"Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself."
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"History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes."
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"2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!"
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"The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself."
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