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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

Needs, According

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

Great, History, Sex

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

History, Second, Tragedy

Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx

Democracy, Road, Socialism

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx

Nothing, Lose, Workers

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx

Religion, Mind, Human

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx

Living, Dead, Lives

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx

Nothing, Win, Revolution

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx

Results, Useful, Useless

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

May, Communism, Theory

Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx

Religion, Masses, Opium

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx

Sex, Progress, Social

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx

Pain, Suffering, Physical

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx

Peace, Socialism, Meaning

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

Men, History, Fight

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx

Him, Object, Bureaucrat

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx

Freedom, Until, Blind

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

Rich, Poor, Off

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

Time, Art, Same

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

Society, Left, Behind

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

Men, History, Nothing

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx

Technology, Together, Whole

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx

Religion, Heart, Soul

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx

Strange, Obvious, Sight

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 5, 1818

Died: March 14, 1883

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