Money Quotes by Karl Marx

I hate money and Jews.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman

— Karl Marx

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

— Karl Marx

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels…

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

— Karl Marx

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content…

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its…

— Karl Marx

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not…

— Karl Marx

The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in…

— Karl Marx

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so…

— Karl Marx

[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

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The…

— Karl Marx

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is…

— Karl Marx

“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the…

— Karl Marx

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with…

— Karl Marx

“Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments, and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully developed.…

— Karl Marx

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you…

— Karl Marx

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly…

— Karl Marx

Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is…

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live…

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of…

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

“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

“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not…

— Karl Marx

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to…

— Karl Marx

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard…

— Karl Marx