“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Health
“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
FutureAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”
Good“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
Religion“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“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”
Science“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
Happiness“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“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men“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“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
Freedom“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
History“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“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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
Men“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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
History“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
Experience“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”
Art