674 Quotes by Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation?

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.

Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

[Martin] Luther, we grant, overcame bondage out of devotion by replacing it by bondage out of conviction. He shattered faith in authority because he restored the authority of faith. He turned priests into laymen because he turned laymen into priests. He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

...paranın hareketi, yalnızca metaların dolaşımının ifadesi olduğu halde, tersine, metaların dolaşımı yalnızca paranın hareketinin sonucuymuş gibi görünür.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.