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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 10

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The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

Work, Workers, Products

Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Philosophical, Health, Length Of Life

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

Kings, Church, Helping

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Art, Sensitive, Enjoy

Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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.

Mean, Men, Use

David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

Country, People, Slavery

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

Oxen, Commodity, Standards

Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Knowledge, Differences, Certain

Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.322, OUP Oxford

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

War, Blood, Europe

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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.

Struggle, Book, Science

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Book, Machines

"The letters of Karl Marx".

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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

Mean, Expression, Class

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.16, Haymarket Books

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Essence, Invisible, Form

Karl Marx (1977). “Capital: a critique of political economy”, Vintage

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.

Time, Science, Scientist

"Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844". Book by Karl Marx, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value", 1932.

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

Nature, Science, Men

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

Dog, Periods, Democrat

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Swept Away, Establishment

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

Automation, Machines, Form

"Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 1, pg. 416, 1867.

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

Work, Palaces, Machines

"Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts". Book by Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor" (p. 135), 1983.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Essence, Would Be, Appearance

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.532, Oxford University Press, USA

The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.

Character, Limits, Capitalist

Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.71, Collector's Library

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Philosophy, Greek, Tragedy

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, London : Lawrence & Wishart

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

Individuality, Capability, Labourers

Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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.

Independent, Class, Prosperity

Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Civilization, Environmental, Done

Karl Marx, David Fernbach (1981). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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