Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by… — 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
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
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and… — 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
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor. — 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
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;… — 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