You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought


Karl Kraus

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KARL MARX
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...
KARL MARX
Religion is the opium of the masses.
KARL MARX
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...
KARL MARX
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
KARL MARX
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen...
KARL MARX
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
KARL MARX
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
KARL MARX
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
KARL MARX
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i...
KARL PILKINGTON
With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads...
KARL PILKINGTON
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &...
KARL PILKINGTON
It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
KARL PILKINGTON
I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
KARL PILKINGTON
I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
KARL PILKINGTON
The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head s...
KARL PILKINGTON
We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ...
KARL PILKINGTON
But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
KARL PILKINGTON
For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
KARL PILKINGTON
Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou...
KARL PILKINGTON
Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
KARL PILKINGTON
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
KARL PILKINGTON