674 Quotes by Karl Marx

Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

Ideas do not exist separately from language.