Quotes by Karl Marx (Page 2 of 2)

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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.