Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. Karl Marx on men
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. Karl Marx on 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. Karl Marx on money
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. Karl Marx on 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. Karl Marx on nature
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx on peace
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Karl Marx on religion
Religion is the opium of the masses. Karl Marx on religion
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. Karl Marx on religion
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx on religion
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. Karl Marx on science
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. Karl Marx on science
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. Karl Marx on society
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx on society
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Karl Marx on society
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. Karl Marx on society
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. Karl Marx on society
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. Karl Marx on society
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. Karl Marx on technology
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx on time