Karl Marx:

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.

— Karl Marx Modern

Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital

Context

Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge, after the Prussian government dissolved the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung.

Date / Period

1843

Source

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

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