The way people get their living determines their social outlook. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx Ideas do not exist separately from language. Karl Marx languageideas Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. Karl Marx pregnantmidwifeforce The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity. Karl Marx christiandreammen Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained. Karl Marx strugglesciencebook Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men. Karl Marx realdoemen The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. Karl Marx alienationevilmen The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker. Karl Marx workersproductswork This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features. Karl Marx overwhelmedyoungkindness Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. Karl Marx machinesweaponsmay In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. Karl Marx competitionclasslong Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. Karl Marx coinslongmean Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing. Karl Marx circumstancesmen Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having. Karl Marx intellectualstupidmade Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx secrettimeart Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. Karl Marx philosophicalmenideas In my free time I do differential and integral calculus. Karl Marx integral-calculuscalculusmathematical The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer. Karl Marx accumulationselffundamentals The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Karl Marx painstrengthdepression It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis. Karl Marx prosperityindependentclass Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical. Karl Marx armygovernmentstrong
