Karl Marx Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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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.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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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.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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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.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.