Quote

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence this essence dominates him and he worships it.

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
Essence
Existence
Money
Work
Worships
Men
Dominates
Alienated
Worship

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.
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
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl Marx
Image
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
Karl Marx
Image
All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
Image
All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.
Karl Marx
Image
A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.
Karl Marx
Image
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
Karl Marx
Image
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
Image
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.
Karl Marx
Image
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
Karl Marx
Image
All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
Image
The Communists have no need to introduce free love it has existed almost from time immemorial.
Karl Marx
Image
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
Karl Marx
Image
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
Karl Marx
Image
The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.
Karl Marx
Image
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
Karl Marx
Image
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .
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
These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.
Karl Marx