674 Quotes by Karl Marx

A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.