Zitat des Tages von 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.
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.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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.
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.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
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.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Religion is the opium of the masses.