Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I’ll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.
Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
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 .
Ideas do not exist separately from language.
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which the aesthetic ideal finds its direct expression.
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one’s back on hum suffering and look after one’s own skin.
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
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.
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.
A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .