“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
Society
“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
ExperienceAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”
Society“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”
Money“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
Science“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
Great“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
Religion“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
History“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
Change“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
Age“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
Future“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
History“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”
Time“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
Freedom“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
Society“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”
Great“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
Religion“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
History“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
Money