Quote

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

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
Hands
Governed
Men
Capitalist
Production
Productions
Products
Hand
Brain
Religion
Capitalistic

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
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 Marx
Image
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
Karl Marx
Image
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
Karl Marx
Image
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
Karl Marx
Image
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
Karl Marx
Image
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
Image
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
Karl Marx
Image
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
Karl Marx
Image
The worker puts his life into the object but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
Karl Marx
Image
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
Karl Marx
Image
The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
Karl Marx
Image
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
Karl Marx
Image
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
Karl Marx
Image
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
Karl Marx
Image
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
Karl Marx
Image
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
Karl Marx
Image
Music is the mirror of reality.
Karl Marx
Image
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
Image
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
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