Karl Marx Quotes
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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.
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
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.
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
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.
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
