The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. (Karl Marx)
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. (Karl Marx)
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. (Karl Marx)
The workers have nothing to lose in this revolution but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite. (Karl Marx)
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. (Karl Marx)
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. (Karl Marx)
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. (Karl Marx)
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. (Karl Marx)
The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. (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)
Go on, get out last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity. (Karl Marx)
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. (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)