Karl Marx

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

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.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.