“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men
“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
HealthAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace“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“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“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Society“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
Men“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
Society“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
History“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“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.”
Technology“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“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 history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
History“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
Future“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“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
History“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“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
Experience“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
Happiness“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
Society