“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Thus, in imagination, individuals seem freer under the dominance of the bourgeoisie than before, because their conditions of life seem accidental; in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Since the mass of the employed living labour is continually on the decline as compared to the mass of materialised labour set… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of… — Karl Marx Copy Share
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx Copy Share
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… — Karl Marx Copy Share
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work… — Karl Marx Copy Share