The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market. Karl Marx construction process house In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims. Karl Marx states identity way While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx philosophical mad gone Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. Karl Marx length-of-life philosophical health The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing. Karl Marx working-class revolutionary class All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature. Karl Marx transformation human-nature humans Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Karl Marx idlers doubt numbers Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way. Karl Marx race class earthquakes I am nothing and should be everything. Karl Marx atheism rage fear Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. Karl Marx restoration men world The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. Karl Marx details circles understanding Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. Karl Marx tragedy greek philosophy So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond. Karl Marx chemist pearls diamond Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs. Karl Marx occult golden eggs The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London. Karl Marx hate struggle men The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. Karl Marx individual facts firsts 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 politics political animal Moments are the elements of profit Karl Marx profit elements moments To discover the various use of things is the work of history. Karl Marx various use Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. Karl Marx social-consciousness ideals cash
