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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 16

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I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

Thinking, Something New, Reader

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.453, Oxford University Press, USA

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

Communication, Mean, Civilization

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.249, Oxford University Press, USA

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

Real, Usury, Judaism

Karl Marx (2015). “A World Without Jews”, p.35, Open Road Media

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

Self, Differences, People

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

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

People, Religion, Opiates

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Use, Various

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

Uprising, India, Rebel

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Intellectual, Invention, Force

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Philosophy, Circles, Political

Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.47, CUP Archive

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

Fall, Safety, Gold

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

Children, School, Free Education

Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1844, Harriman House Limited

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Dog, Book, Economics

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1956). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Correspondence, [1843-1895].”

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

Tired, Fighting, Hair

Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Simple, Intelligent, Levels

Das Kapital vol. 1, ch. 16 (1867) (translation by Ben Fowkes)

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Party, Europe, Police

Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

Attitude, Two, Principles

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.

Country, Struggle, Different

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “The Communist Manifesto (Diversion Classics)”, p.18, Diversion Books

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Tools, Despotism, Strongholds

[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.

Essence, Practice, Tasks

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “The holy family”, p.148, Рипол Классик

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

July, Practice, Connections

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

Class, Two, Bourgeoisie

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.40, Haymarket Books

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

Men, Numbers, People

Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.

Mean, Men, Careers

"Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation", 1835.

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.

Mean, World, Able

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1998). “The Communist Manifesto and Its Relevance for Today”, p.50, Resistance Books

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

Commodity, Labor, Employed

Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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