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.Karl Heinrich Marx
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.Karl Heinrich Marx
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.Karl Heinrich Marx
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.Karl Heinrich Marx
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.Karl Heinrich Marx
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.Karl Heinrich Marx
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.Karl Heinrich Marx
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.Karl Heinrich Marx
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.Karl Heinrich Marx
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull endingKarl Heinrich Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.Karl Heinrich Marx
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.Karl Heinrich Marx
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.Karl Heinrich Marx