Quotes

“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.” Karl Marx

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

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” Karl 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 Marx

“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.” Karl Marx

“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.” Karl Marx

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” Karl Marx

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.” Karl Marx

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” Karl Marx

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” Karl Marx

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.” Karl Marx

“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.” Karl Marx

“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.” Karl Marx

“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.” Karl Marx

“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.” Karl Marx

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” Karl Marx

“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.” Karl Marx

“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.” Karl Marx

“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

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.” Karl Marx

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.” Karl Marx

“The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.” Karl 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 Marx

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.” Karl Marx

“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.” Karl Marx

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” Aristotle

“Hope is a waking dream.” Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” Aristotle