Karl Marx Quotes
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The very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
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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 meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one is exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour.
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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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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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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Der Weg zur Hölle ist jedoch mit guten Absichten gepflastert, und er konnte ebensogut der Absicht sein, Geld zu machen, ohne zu produzieren.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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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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The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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Of all the animals kept by the farmer, the labourer, the instrumentum vocale, was,thenceforth, the most oppressed, the worst nourished, the most brutally treated.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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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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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.