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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 9

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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Substance, Wealth, Form

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook II, The Chapter on Money, p. 141, 1857-1858.

One capitalist always kills many.

Capitalist

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.836, Cosimo, Inc.

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

Mean, Increase, Labour

Karl Marx (2005). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy”, Penguin UK

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

Gold, Buying Gold, Silver

Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.126, OUP Oxford

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

Spring, People, Sound

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

Style, Rifles, Citizens

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Science, Everyday, Appearance

Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). “Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels”, p.105, Collector's Library

Religion is the opiate of the people.

Religious, People, Religion

"Marx is dead: don't resuscitate him" by Linsey McGoey, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2008.

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

Existence, Existence Of God, Materials

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

Criticism, Weapons

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Mind, Unhappy, Energy

Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Past, Superstitions, Revolution

We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.

Hands, Use, Commodity

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Men, Alive, Landscape

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

Religious, Real, World

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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.

Class, Long, Competition

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Men, Hands, Brain

"Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production".

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Life, Happiness, Philosophical

Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Philosophy, World, Study

A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

Duration, Determined, Individual

Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

Ends, Motive, Aim

Karl Marx (2012). “Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.178, Regnery Publishing

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

Reality, Expression, Form

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, 1857-1858.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Mean, Long, Coins

Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.145, Cosimo, Inc.

By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

Taken, Mean, Hands

Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3”, International Pub

What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.

Work, Men, Law

Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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