“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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“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.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
History“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
Age“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
Freedom“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
Change“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.”
Society“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
Happiness“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
Money“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
Religion“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.”
Science“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
Science“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
History“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
History“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
Religion“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.”
Time“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
Experience“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”
Art“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”
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