“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
“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.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”
Art“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
Age“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
Men“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
Society“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
Freedom“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
Happiness“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“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“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“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace“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“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
Religion“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 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 country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
Future“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
Experience“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
History