Selected Quotes By Karl Marx
"To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased."
Karl Marx, Work
"You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things."
Karl Marx, Work
"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."
Karl Marx, Freedom
"...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."
Karl Marx, Goals
"These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, 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."
Karl Marx, Work
"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."
Karl Marx, Belief
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Karl Marx, Kindness
"Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it."
Karl Marx, Wealth
"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
Karl Marx, Ideas
"If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune."
Karl Marx, Love
"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded."
Karl Marx, Freedom
"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
Karl Marx, Work
"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."
Karl Marx, Wealth
"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image."
Karl Marx, Wealth
"If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation?"
Karl Marx, Wealth
"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."
Karl Marx, Science
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."
Karl Marx, Belief
"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."
Karl Marx, Wealth
"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."
Karl Marx, Business
"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."
Karl Marx, Friendship
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
Karl Marx, Government
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."