“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 first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“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“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
History“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
Religion“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“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“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“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 ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
Age“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 opium of the masses.”
Religion“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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
History“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
Happiness“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”
Art“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
Future“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“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