Karl Marx Quotes

“Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.”

“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money. The species-relation itself, the relation between man and woman, etc., becomes an object of trade! The woman is bought and sold.”

“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.”

“Man was not liberated from religion, but gained religious freedom. He was not liberated from property, but gained freedom of property. He was not liberated from the selfishness of the profession, but gained the freedom of the profession.”

“Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.”