The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Karl MarxHegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl MarxThe country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl MarxCapital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl MarxIn the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
Karl MarxLabor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum.
Karl Marx