The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.
Karl MarxPolitical economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.
Karl MarxThe 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 MarxThe method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
Karl Marx