Karl Marx Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

“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.”

“There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.”

“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.”

“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”

“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”

“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.”

“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.”