Karl Marx
The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the stateCollection: Purpose
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.Collection: Bourgeoisie
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.Collection: Commodity
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.Collection: Bricks And Mortar
Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.Collection: Natural
In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.Collection: Identity
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.Collection: Wisdom
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.Collection: Self
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.Collection: God
We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.Collection: Rope
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.Collection: Class
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.Collection: Lying
In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.Collection: Mathematical
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.Collection: Opposites
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.Collection: Men
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.Collection: Business
They don't know it, but they are doing it.Collection: Clean Air
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.Collection: Taken
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.Collection: Block
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?Collection: Money
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.Collection: Hands
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About RussiaCollection: Stars
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.Collection: Men
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.Collection: Religious
Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.Collection: Moving
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.Collection: Mother
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.Collection: Change
All I know is that I am not a Marxist.Collection: Real
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.Collection: Love
Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.Collection: Mean
Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!Collection: Moses
Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.Collection: Philosophy
Religion is the opiate of the people.Collection: Religious
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, 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.Collection: Class
The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.Collection: Men
No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.Collection: Needs
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.Collection: Work
By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.Collection: Taken
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.Collection: Dog
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.Collection: Mean
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.Collection: Existence
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.Collection: Reality
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.Collection: Nature
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.Collection: Essence
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.Collection: Struggle
It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.Collection: Littles
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracyCollection: Democracy
The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.Collection: Work
Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the massesCollection: Data