Karl Marx citáty

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„Potlačeným je raz za niekoľko rokov dovolené rozhodnúť sa, ktorých konkrétnych predstaviteľov utláčanej triedy si zvolia, aby ich reprezentovali a potláčali v parlamente.“

„Umenie je najvyššia radosť, ktorú človek dáva sám sebe.“

„Skúsenosť nám ukazuje, že najnešťastnejší je ten, kto priniesol šťastie najväčšiemu počtu ľudí.“

„Akí sú ľudia, taká je aj diskusia.“

„Iba ten národ je slobodný, ktorý neberie slobodu iným národom.“

„Náboženstvo je ópium ľudstva.“

„Vo voľnom čase ľudia jednak oddychujú a jednak sa venujú vznešenejším záľubám, ktoré, pochopiteľne, robia z človeka nový subjekt.“

„Zdá sa, že takou mierou, akou si človek podrobuje prírodu, je podrobovaný inými ľuďmi alebo vlastnou nízkosťou.“

„Ľudské dejiny sú dejinami individuálneho vývoja ľudí.“

„Pravdy nepoznajú hranice politického zemepisu.“

„Bolo by, pravda, veľmi pohodlné robiť svetové dejiny, keby sa zápas podstupoval len s podmienkou neklamne priaznivých vyhliadok.“

„Každý začiatok je ťažký - táto pravda platí pre všetky veky.“

„Pravdivý má byť nielen výsledok skúmania, ale aj cesta k nemu. Samé skúmanie pravdy musí byť pravdivé.“

„Boh nie je nič iné, než povýšenie ľudských vlastností do dokonalých rozmerov, je to len výplod fantázie.“

„Účel, ktorý potrebuje nesprávne prostriedky, nemôže byť správny.“

„Muž je len taký starý ako žena, do ktorej je zaľúbený.“

„Filozofi doteraz svet vysvetľovali, ide však o to: zmeniť ho.“

„Sloboda je poznaná nutnosť.“

„Človek by mal byť tým, čím by mohol byť.“

„Blahobyt spoločnosti má dva zdroje - prácu a prírodu.“

„Ak človek pracuje len pre seba, môže sa stať znamenitým učencom, veľkým mudrcom, slávnym básnikom, ale nikdy sa nemôže stať veľkým človekom.“

„Ak použijem na dobrý cieľ zlé prostriedky, prestáva byť cieľ dobrý.“

„Byrokracia miluje iracionálnosť a v tom je sestrou teológie.“

„Proletári všetkých krajín, spojte sa!“

„Keby nebolo tých, ktorí tvoria hodnoty, nebolo by ani čo kradnúť.“

„Robotnícka trieda v revolúcii nemôže nič stratiť. Len až svoje okovy, ale získať môže celý svet.“

„Manželstvo sa nemôže podriaďovať zvôli, ale zvôľa sa musí podriaďovať manželstvu.“

„Tvorivá práca je ako plameň, je vážnym a veľmi zaujímavým napätím.“

„Triedny boj nevyhnutne vedie k diktatúre proletariátu.“

„Nešťastie nikdy nechodí samo.“

„Byrokracia miluje iracionálnosť.“

„Byť radikálny znamená uchopiť vec u koreňa. Koreňom človeka je však sám človek.“

„Dočasné odlúčenie je dobré. Aj veže sa zdajú z blízka prikrčené, pričom malé a všedné veci príliš narastajú ak ich pozorujeme bez odstupu. Aj s citmi je to tak.“

„Filozofi tento svet len interpretovali, čo je však rozhodujúce, to je jeho premena.“

„Najväčším životným nebezpečenstvom pre každú bytosť je, že stráca seba samého. Preto je nesloboda vlastným smrteľným nebezpečenstvom pre človeka.“

„Nestačí, keď myšlienka usiluje o uskutočnenie, skutočnosť sama musí usilovať o myšlienku.“

„Poslaním umenia je nielen zjemňovať existujúce zmysly človeka, ale vytvárať zmysly nové.“

„Pre byrokrata je svet obyčajným objektom jeho úradného výkonu.“

„Rozvod nie je nič iného než vyhlásenie - toto manželstvo je zosnulé manželstvo, jeho existencia je len zdanie a klam.“

„Trápia nás nielen živí, ale i mŕtvi.“

„Žena musí byť predovšetkým pekná a muž silný.“

“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.”

“We have just seen that, apart from money-capital, circulating capital is only another name for commodity-capital. But to the extent that labour power circulates in the market, it is not capital, no form of commodity-capital. It is not capital at all; the labourer is not a capitalist, although he brings a commodity to market, namely his own skin.”

“Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.”

“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

“An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.”

“Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.”

“It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.”

“Your favourite virtue … Simplicity
Your favourite virtue in man … Strength
Your favourite virtue in woman … Weakness
Your chief characteristic … Singleness of purpose
Your idea of happiness … To fight
Your idea of misery … Submission
The vice you excuse most … Gullibility
The vice you detest most … Servility
Your aversion … Martin Tupper
Favourite occupation … Book-worming
Favourite poet … Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe
Favourite prose-writer … Diderot
Favourite hero … Spartacus, Kepler
Favourite heroine … Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust]
Favourite flower … Daphne
Favourite colour … Red
Favourite name … Laura, Jenny
Favourite dish … Fish
Favourite maxim … Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me, Terence]
Favourite motto … De omnibus dubitandum”

“It is in fact not the consciousness dominating life but the very life dominating consciousness.”

“b>England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating – the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia… When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch… and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.”

“Reason nevertheless prevails in world history.”

“In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite the high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beet-root sugar, and potato spirits.”

“Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.”

“For capitalism is abolished root and branch by the bare assumption that it is personal consumption and not enrichment that works as the compelling motive.”

“But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.”

“I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.”

“Everything great glitters, glitter begets ambition, and ambition can easily have caused the inspiration or what we thought to be inspiration. But reason can no longer restrain one who is lured by the fury of ambition. He tumbles where his vehement drive calls him; no longer does he choose his position, but rather chance and luster determine it.
Then we are not called to the position where we can most shine. It is not the one which, in the long succession of years during which we may hold it, will never make us weary, subdue our zeal, or dampen our inspiration. Soon we shall see our wishes unfulfilled and our ideas unsatisfied.”

“Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.”

“Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.”

“History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.”

“If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.”

“Of all the animals kept by the farmer, the labourer, the instrumentum vocale, was, thenceforth, the most oppressed, the worst nourished, the most brutally treated.”

“Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge, objectified. The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it.”

“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.”

“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

“Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.”

“A house sold by A to B does not wander from one place to another, although it circulates as a commodity.”

“In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.”