Quote

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

Karl Marx

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
Marx
Society
Bonds
Money
Bond
Nature
Agent
Human
Ties
Humans
Separation
Men
Agents
Dissolve
Life
Universal
Bind
Therefore
Binding

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.
Karl Marx
Image
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
Karl Marx
Image
Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence this essence dominates him and he worships it.
Karl Marx
Image
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
Image
And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?
Karl Marx
Image
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.
Karl Marx
Image
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
Karl Marx
Image
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his natural superiors, and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment.
Karl Marx
Image
Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena
Karl Marx
Image
The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.
Karl Marx
Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
Image
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
Karl Marx
Image
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
Karl Marx
Image
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 Marx
Image
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
Karl Marx
Image
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
Image
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
Karl Marx
Image
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx
Image
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
Karl Marx
Image
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
Karl Marx