674 Quotes by Karl Marx

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

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.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Men make their own history