Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Quote by Karl Marx

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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically...

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically...

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because...

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because...

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather...

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather...

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

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

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the...

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives 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

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if...

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and...

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and...

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It...

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It...

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 writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write,...

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write,...

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all...

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all...

Whenever you read therefore in the Bible, you have to find out what it's there...

Whenever you read therefore in the Bible, you have to find out what it's there...

In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain...

In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain...

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that...

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that...