Top quotes by Karl Marx

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. Votes: 32

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. Votes: 31

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. Votes: 27

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Votes: 27

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Votes: 26

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! Votes: 22

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. Votes: 19

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. Votes: 18

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Votes: 15

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. Votes: 14

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. Votes: 14

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Votes: 14

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Votes: 13

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. Votes: 13

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Votes: 12

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. Votes: 12

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. Votes: 11

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. Votes: 10

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. Votes: 9

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. Votes: 8

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. Votes: 8

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. Votes: 6

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. Votes: 5

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. Votes: 4

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. Votes: 4

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. Votes: 4

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Votes: 4

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille Votes: 3

...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an "assault upon society" and is branded as "Socialism. Votes: 1

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations." Votes: 1

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience. Votes: 0

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Votes: 0

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Votes: 0

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Votes: 0

Democracy is the road to socialism, and writing for the Reader Weekly is the road to being an unemployed 32-year-old whose relatives still put money in his birthday cards. Votes: 0

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. Votes: 0

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. Votes: 0

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment. Votes: 0

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. Votes: 0

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Votes: 0

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus. Votes: 0

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. Votes: 0

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Votes: 0

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope. Votes: 0

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. Votes: 0

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Votes: 0

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses Votes: 0

You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power. Votes: 0

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Votes: 0

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society. Votes: 0

Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained. Votes: 0

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. Votes: 0

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Votes: 0

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party Votes: 0

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Votes: 0

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Votes: 0

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade. Votes: 0

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. Votes: 0

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Votes: 0

It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis. Votes: 0

We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity. Votes: 0

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. Votes: 0

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life. Votes: 0

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end. Votes: 0

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Votes: 0

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe. Votes: 0

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Votes: 0

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles. Votes: 0

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy . Votes: 0

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it. Votes: 0

From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again. Votes: 0

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. Votes: 0

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer. Votes: 0

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. Votes: 0

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom. Votes: 0

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery. Votes: 0

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels. Votes: 0

There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy. Votes: 0

Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution. Votes: 0

All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Votes: 0

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. Votes: 0

All I know is I'm not a Marxist. Votes: 0

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother. Votes: 0

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. Votes: 0

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. Votes: 0

The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality. Votes: 0

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. Votes: 0

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. Votes: 0

2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains! Votes: 0

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. Votes: 0

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Votes: 0

Religion is the opiate of the people. Votes: 0

Religion is the opium of the masses. Votes: 0

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters. Votes: 0

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. Votes: 0

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital. Votes: 0

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. Votes: 0

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Votes: 0

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Votes: 0

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity. Votes: 0

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it. Votes: 0

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas. Votes: 0

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. Votes: 0

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps Votes: 0

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Votes: 0

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. Votes: 0

As individuals express their life, so they are. Votes: 0

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. Votes: 0

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand. Votes: 0

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. Votes: 0

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself. Votes: 0

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. Votes: 0

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Votes: 0

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Votes: 0

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused. Votes: 0

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. Votes: 0

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Votes: 0

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part. Votes: 0

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom. Votes: 0

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other. Votes: 0

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. Votes: 0

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is. Votes: 0

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system. Votes: 0

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena Votes: 0

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. Votes: 0

Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering. Votes: 0

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable. Votes: 0

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Votes: 0

Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds. Votes: 0

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar. Votes: 0

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs. Votes: 0

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself. Votes: 0

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing. Votes: 0

The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world domination by the dissolution of other races...and by the establishment of a world republic in which everywhere the Jews will exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the Children of Israel...will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition... Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. Votes: 0

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Votes: 0

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. Votes: 0

Democracy is the road to socialism. Votes: 0

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism. Votes: 0

...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be. Votes: 0

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Votes: 0

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy. Votes: 0

...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order. Votes: 0

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required. Votes: 0

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself. Votes: 0

A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation. Votes: 0

A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism. Votes: 0

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Votes: 0

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. Votes: 0

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains. Votes: 0

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded. Votes: 0

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Votes: 0

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. Votes: 0

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets! Votes: 0

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole Votes: 0

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church. Votes: 0

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy Votes: 0

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature. Votes: 0

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. Votes: 0

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. Votes: 0

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice. Votes: 0

Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit . Votes: 0

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object. Votes: 0

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them? Votes: 0

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market. Votes: 0

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either. Votes: 0

As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse. Votes: 0

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. Votes: 0

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality. Votes: 0

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production. Votes: 0

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital . Votes: 0

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone . Votes: 0

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. Votes: 0

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine. Votes: 0

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. Votes: 0

Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew. Votes: 0

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. Votes: 0

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. Votes: 0

By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle. Votes: 0

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit. Votes: 0

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs. Votes: 0

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer. Votes: 0

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce. Votes: 0

Change the economic base and you will change human beings. Votes: 0

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money. Votes: 0

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. Votes: 0

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations. Votes: 0

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. Votes: 0

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. Votes: 0

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. Votes: 0

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. Votes: 0

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself. Votes: 0

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. Votes: 0

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker. Votes: 0

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. Votes: 0

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation. Votes: 0

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain. Votes: 0

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons. Votes: 0

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations. Votes: 0

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. Votes: 0

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. Votes: 0

Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman. Votes: 0

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. Votes: 0

Follow your own path, no matter what people say. Votes: 0

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production Votes: 0

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Votes: 0

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. Votes: 0

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity. Votes: 0

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding. Votes: 0

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money. Votes: 0

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. Votes: 0

I am a machine condemned to devour books. Votes: 0

I am nothing and should be everything. Votes: 0

I am nothing but I must be everything. Votes: 0

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. Votes: 0

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight. Votes: 0

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above. Votes: 0

Ideas do not exist separately from language. Votes: 0

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic. Votes: 0

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation? Votes: 0

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin. Votes: 0

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction. Votes: 0

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. Votes: 0

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day. Votes: 0

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people. Votes: 0

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. Votes: 0

Imperialism is da woist thing I ever hoid! Votes: 0

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians. Votes: 0

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. Votes: 0

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. Votes: 0

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off. Votes: 0

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. Votes: 0

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. Votes: 0

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. Votes: 0

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Votes: 0

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. Votes: 0

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition. Votes: 0

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims. Votes: 0

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. Votes: 0

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred. Votes: 0

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it. Votes: 0

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. Votes: 0

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating. Votes: 0

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. Votes: 0

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it. Votes: 0

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away. Votes: 0

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way. Votes: 0

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production. Votes: 0

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled. Votes: 0

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines. Votes: 0

Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum. Votes: 0

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. Votes: 0

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough... Votes: 0

Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general. Votes: 0

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. Votes: 0

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. Votes: 0

Man makes religion, religion does not make man Votes: 0

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'. Votes: 0

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive. Votes: 0

Men make their own history Votes: 0

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing. Votes: 0

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Votes: 0

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. Votes: 0

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. Votes: 0

Misery motivates, not utopia. Votes: 0

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it. Votes: 0

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. Votes: 0

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history Votes: 0

Music is the mirror of reality. Votes: 0

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. Votes: 0

Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature. Votes: 0

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need. Votes: 0

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. Votes: 0

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868) Votes: 0

One capitalist always kills many. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Votes: 0

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible. Votes: 0

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism. Votes: 0

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world. Votes: 0

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex. Votes: 0

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. Votes: 0

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it. Votes: 0

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle. Votes: 0

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value. Votes: 0

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it Votes: 0

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having. Votes: 0

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. Votes: 0

Religion is the balm of the people. Votes: 0

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. Votes: 0

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people. Votes: 0

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc. Votes: 0

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. Votes: 0

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. Votes: 0

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God. Votes: 0

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy. Votes: 0

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond. Votes: 0

So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse. Votes: 0

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak. Votes: 0

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. Votes: 0

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way. Votes: 0

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded. Votes: 0

Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily persuaded. Votes: 0

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified. Votes: 0

The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman Votes: 0

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker. Votes: 0

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Votes: 0

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. Votes: 0

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. Votes: 0

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state Votes: 0

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money. Votes: 0

The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value . Votes: 0

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money. Votes: 0

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! Votes: 0

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial. Votes: 0

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. Votes: 0

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism Votes: 0

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity. Votes: 0

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent. Votes: 0

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. Votes: 0

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity . Votes: 0

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Votes: 0

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor. Votes: 0

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom. Votes: 0

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. Votes: 0

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. Votes: 0

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the centre of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 till now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organisationally. Their predominance over the French on the world stage would also mean the predominance of our theory over Proudhon's, etc. Votes: 0

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry Votes: 0

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas. Votes: 0

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains. Votes: 0

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production. Votes: 0

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races. Votes: 0

The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself. Votes: 0

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being. Votes: 0

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Votes: 0

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. Votes: 0

The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated. Votes: 0

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule. Votes: 0

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself. Votes: 0

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker. Votes: 0

The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. Votes: 0

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. Votes: 0

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. Votes: 0

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. Votes: 0

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present. Votes: 0

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win. Votes: 0

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world. Votes: 0

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction Votes: 0

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past. Votes: 0

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities. Votes: 0

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. Votes: 0

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it. Votes: 0

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. Votes: 0

The unity is brought about by force . Votes: 0

The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. Votes: 0

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed. Votes: 0

The way people get their living determines their social outlook. Votes: 0

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much Votes: 0

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons. Votes: 0

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed. Votes: 0

The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits. Votes: 0

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object. Votes: 0

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got Votes: 0

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs. Votes: 0

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people. Votes: 0

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. Votes: 0

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities. Votes: 0

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life. Votes: 0

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition). Votes: 0

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary. Votes: 0

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. Votes: 0

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes. Votes: 0

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them. Votes: 0

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery Votes: 0

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time. Votes: 0

They don't know it, but they are doing it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace. Votes: 0

Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not. Votes: 0

To be radical is to grasp things by the root. Votes: 0

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. Votes: 0

To discover the various use of things is the work of history. Votes: 0

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. Votes: 0

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. Votes: 0

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. Votes: 0

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned. Votes: 0

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us. Votes: 0

What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer. Votes: 0

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder. Votes: 0

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence. Votes: 0

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species. Votes: 0

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer. Votes: 0

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator. Votes: 0

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless. Votes: 0

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society. Votes: 0

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. Votes: 0

Communism begins where atheism begins... Votes: 0

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that. Votes: 0

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men. Votes: 0

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. Votes: 0

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating. Votes: 0