674 Quotes by Karl Marx

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.

Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.