German - Philosopher | May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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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.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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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.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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