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Quotes by Karl Marx
- The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
- The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
- 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.
- The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
- The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
- The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
- The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
- The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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