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.“

“England, it is true, in causing a social revolution in Hindostan, was actuated only by the vilest interests, and was stupid in her manner of enforcing them. But that is not the question. The question is, can mankind fulfil its destiny without a fundamental revolution in the social state of Asia? If not, whatever may have been the crimes of England she was the unconscious tool of history in bringing about that revolution.”

“The object before us, to begin with, material production.”

“Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.”

“When we have weighed everything, and when our relations in life permit us to choose any given position, we may take that one which guarantees us the greatest dignity, which is based on ideas of whose truth we are completely convinced, which offers the largest field to work for mankind and approach the universal goal for which every position is only a means: perfection.”

“As for large landed property, its defenders have always, sophistically, identified the economic advantages offered by large-scale agriculture with large-scale landed property, as if it were not precisely as a result of the abolition of property that this advantage, for one thing, would receive its greatest possible extension, and, for another, only then would be of social benefit.”

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

“In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.”

“The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.”

“Supply and demand constantly determine the prices of commodities; never balance, or only coincidentally; but the cost of production, for its part, determines the oscillations of supply and demand.”

“Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.”

“What chance has Vulcan against Roberts & Co., Jupiter against the lightning-rod and Hermes against the Credit Mobilier? All mythology overcomes and dominates and shapes the forces of nature in the imagination and by the imagination; it therefore vanishes with the advent of real mastery over them.”

“The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.”

“It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average, that he will wash himself.”

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”

“The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.”

“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection … If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [Dichter], but never a perfected, a truly great man.”

“Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.”

“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”

“Everyone has a goal which appears to be great, at least to himself, and is great when deepest conviction, the innermost voice of the heart, pronounces it great. … This voice, however, is easily drowned out, and what we thought to be inspiration may have been created by the fleeting moment and again perhaps destroyed by it. … We must seriously ask ourselves, therefore, whether we are really inspired about a vocation, whether an inner voice approves of it, or whether the inspiration was a deception, whether that which we took as the Deity’s calling to us was self-deceit. But how else could we recognize this except by searching for the source of our inspiration?”

“Prometheus is the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.”

“But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.”

“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.”

“To discover the various use of things is the work of history.”

“Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.”

“As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.”

“We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”

“The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

“Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?”