"Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
Moments are the elements of profit
More Karl Marx quotes
"If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right...
"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
"In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of pr...
"Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of ...
"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 himse...
"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
"Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of product...
"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 i...
"As individuals express their life, so they are.
"Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole ...
"Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudali...
"Machinery which is not used is not capital.
"By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week...