674 Quotes by Karl Marx

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.