Karl Marx Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

“For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

“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.”

“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”

“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”

“Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”