While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Quote by Karl Marx

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent...

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent...

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

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

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers

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

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose...

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose...

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image...

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image...

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he...

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he...

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal...

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal...

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film...

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film...

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then...

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then...