674 Quotes by Karl Marx

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

When we bought this house, we designated this room the library,

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.