Karl Marx Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”

“The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.”

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”

“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”

“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”

“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”

“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.”

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”