Karl Marx Quotes
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Prometheus ist der vornehmste Heilige und Märtyrer im philosophischen Kalender.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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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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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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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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Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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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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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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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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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 reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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- man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse -
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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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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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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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Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
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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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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.