"There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery"

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Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1980). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60”, Intl Pub

Karl Marx

#Rotten Quotes #Misery Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.”
“Art too is just a way of living.”
“The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.”
“London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain â€“ the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims â€“ swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”

Source : "At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.
“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.”

Source : Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)
“My definition of economic development is economic growth.”

Source : Source: www.columbusunderground.com
“No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in, the fear came trickling out. It hovered like a cloud of gas around her, threatening to penetrate her pores and poison her.”
“I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.”

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