Karl Marx Quotes
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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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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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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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 object before us, to begin with, material production.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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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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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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Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
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The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
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Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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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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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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Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange,because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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One capitalist always kills many.
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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.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.