Karl Marx Quotes
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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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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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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In England women are still occasionally used instead of horses for hauling canal boats, because the labour required to produce horses and machines is an accurately known quantity, while that required to maintain the women of the surplus population is below all calculation.
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Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
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- man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse -
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
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We cannot always choose the vocation to which we believe we are called. Our social relations, to some extent, have already begun to form before we are in a position to determine them.
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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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.
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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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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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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.