Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm in London, March 1850

“The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.”

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Źródło: (Buch I) (1867) Vol. I, ch.1, section 4.

“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

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

“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection … If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [Dichter], but never a perfected, a truly great man.”

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in Karl Marx and World Literature (1976) by S. S. Prawer, p. 2.
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)

“Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.”

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Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Źródło: Notebook II, The Chapter on Money, p. 141.

“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 5, pg. 296.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Everyone has a goal which appears to be great, at least to himself, and is great when deepest conviction, the innermost voice of the heart, pronounces it great. … This voice, however, is easily drowned out, and what we thought to be inspiration may have been created by the fleeting moment and again perhaps destroyed by it. … We must seriously ask ourselves, therefore, whether we are really inspired about a vocation, whether an inner voice approves of it, or whether the inspiration was a deception, whether that which we took as the Deity’s calling to us was self-deceit. But how else could we recognize this except by searching for the source of our inspiration?”

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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)

“Prometheus is the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.”

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Karl Marx książka The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature

Prometheus ist der vornehmste Heilige und Märtyrer im philosophischen Kalender.
The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature (1841)

“But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 24, Section 4, pg. 657.
(Buch I) (1867)

“The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”

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Addenda, "Relative and Absolute Surplus Value" in Economic Manuscripts (1861-63)

“To discover the various use of things is the work of history.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 1, pg. 42.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.”

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Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 474 (See also...David Ricardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Ch. VII, p. 81).
(Buch II) (1893)

“As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 14, Section 5, pg. 396.
(Buch I) (1867)

“We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”

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Often attributed to Lenin or Stalin, less often to Marx. According to the book, "They Never Said It", p. 64, the phrase derives from a rumour that Lenin said this to one of his close associates, Grigori Zinoviev, not long after a meeting of the Politburo in the early 1920s, but there is no evidence that he ever did. Experts on the Soviet Union reject the rope quote as spurious.
Misattributed

“The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

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Vol. II, Ch. XIX, p. 384.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?”

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(1857/58)
Źródło: (Bastiat and Carey), pp. 809–810.