1. “Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who genuinely care.
They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through."
- Karl Marx
2. “Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him.
Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."
- Karl Marx
3. “If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded."
- Karl Marx
4. When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer."
- Karl Marx
5. “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
- Karl Marx
6. “There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery"
- Karl Marx
7. “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
- Karl Marx
8. “Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled."
- Karl Marx
9. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways.
The point, however, is to change it.”
- Karl Marx
10. “Follow your own path, no matter what people say."
- Karl Marx
11. “Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."
- Karl Marx
12. “Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak."
- Karl Marx
13. “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.
It is the opium of the people."
- Karl Marx
14. “Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough."
- Karl Marx
15. “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
- Karl Marx
16. “Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
- Karl Marx
17. “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."
- Karl Marx
18. “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
- Karl Marx
19. “I am nothing but I must be everything.”
- Karl Marx
20. "Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole"
- Karl Marx
Lastly, if you liked this thread,
And you’re serious about improving your critical way of thinking and mental model,
Once and for all,
Read "MENTAL MODELS"
Mental models are the most important ideas of each science.
It is the way of thinking of the greatest in history.
With the help of books, etc,
It will internalize mental models in your head in a way that you will use them automatically.