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
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the… — 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
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
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not… — 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
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,… — 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
When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image