Karl Marx Quotes
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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 only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.
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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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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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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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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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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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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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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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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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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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- man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse -
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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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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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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
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No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
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Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
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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.