Karl Marx

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

Karl Marx

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Karl Marx

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

Karl Marx

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

Karl Marx

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

Karl Marx

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Karl Marx

Music is the mirror of reality.

Karl Marx

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. If it be useless, the labor contained in it is useless, cannot be reckoned as labor, and cannot therefore create value.

Karl Marx

One capitalist always kills many.

Karl Marx

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

Karl Marx