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“Association, applied to land, shares the economic advantage of large-scale landed property, and first brings to realization the original tendency inherent in land-division, namely, equality. In the same way association also re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, since the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering, and through free labour and free enjoyment becomes once more a true personal property of man.”

Karl Marx book Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

Rent of Land, p. 65.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)

“Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time. An organization of society [such as communism] which would abolish the preconditions for huckstering, and therefore the possibility of huckstering, would make [this] Jew impossible. His religious consciousness would be dissipated like a thin haze in the real, vital air of society. On the other hand, if the Jew recognizes that this practical nature of his is futile and works to abolish it, he extricates himself from his previous development and works for human emancipation as such and turns against the supreme practical expression of human self-estrangement.”

Karl Marx book On the Jewish Question

On the Jewish Question (1843)

“In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”

Karl Marx

Source: The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Section 2, paragraph 72 (last paragraph).

“The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 107.

“So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.”

Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. II, p. 78.
(Buch II) (1893)

“A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 31.

“Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him.
We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.”

Karl Marx

Author's prefaces to the First Edition.
(Buch I) (1867)

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

Karl Marx book On the Jewish Question

On the Jewish Question (1843)

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

Karl Marx

Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)
Source: as quoted in "Nationalism and Socialism: Marxist and Labor Theories of Nationalism to 1917", Horace B. Davis, New York: NY, Monthly Review Press (2009) p. 72. Original: Marx, “Zur Judenfrange” in "Werke", I, (1843) pp. 374-376.

“The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg. 91.
(Buch I) (1867)

“And his money he cannot eat.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 7, pg. 213.
(Buch I) (1867)

“A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls.”

Karl Marx

Wage Labour and Capital (December 1847) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch06.htm, in Marx Engels Selected Works, Volume I, p. 163.

“The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

Karl Marx

Source: The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Section 2, paragraph 13.

“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

Karl Marx

Said to be a quote from Das Kapital in an anonymous email, this attribution has been debunked at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/consumerdebt.asp with the earliest occurrence found being a post by Gpkkid on 23 December 2008 http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/do-bailouts-encourage-ponzi-schemes/#comment-24005; it was used as a basis of a satirical article &quot;Americans to Undergo Preschool Reeducation in Advance of Country’s Conversion to Communism&quot; at NewsMutiny http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/Communist_Reeducation.html, but the author of article on the satiric website says that he is not author of the quote http://www.clockbackward.com/2009/02/04/did-karl-marx-predict-financial-collapse/ <br class="br">Misattributed

“If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 11, pg. 336.
(Buch I) (1867)

“If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 23, pg. 620.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.”

Karl Marx

Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook II, The Chapter on Money, p. 142.

“Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”

Karl Marx

Vol. I, Ch. 3, Section 2, pg. 123.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”

Karl Marx

Paraphrased and misattributed, actually from "Die Musik des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts und ihre Pflege: Methode der Musik" ("The Music of the Nineteenth Century, and its Culture") by Adolf Bernhard Marx: "Die Kunst ist stets und überall das geheime Bekenntnis und unsterbliche Denkmal ihrer Zeit." ("Art is always and everywhere the secret confession as well as the undying monuments of its time.").
Misattributed