3 December 2020 Karl Marx We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
