Karl Marx Quotes
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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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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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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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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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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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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If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.
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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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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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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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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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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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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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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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It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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Mit allen ihren Mängeln erscheint diese Konstitution mitten in der russisch−preußisch−österreichischen Barbarei als das einzige Freiheitswerk, das Osteuropa je selbständig hervorgebracht hat. Und sie ging ausschließlich von der bevorrechteten Klasse, dem Adel, aus. Die Weltgeschichte bietet kein andres Beispiel von ähnlichem Adel des Adels.