All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. Karl Marx inventionforceintellectual Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. Karl Marx difficult 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 timemenscience If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction. Karl Marx reproductionformifs The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism Karl Marx criticism-of-religioncriticism Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. Karl Marx ablemeanworld When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence. Karl Marx pacepeopleideas In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. Karl Marx labourersreality Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. Karl Marx labournatural ...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required. Karl Marx compulsionrealmsdoe Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. Karl Marx doemenlong Religion is the balm of the people. Karl Marx people But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. Karl Marx negationcapitalistlaw There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities. Karl Marx commoditydifferentrelation If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin. Karl Marx skinssufferinglooks Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels. Karl Marx rebeluprisingindia Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. Karl Marx effortgrowthexercise Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. Karl Marx determinedconsciousnesslife Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle. Karl Marx horsedoctorslaw Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. Karl Marx dancercivilizationmuseums
