#be

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#brain #four #glad #got #i

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#been #children #given #had #i

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ↗

— Karl Marx

#blind #conscious #consciousness #freedom #necessity

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#according #banners #behind #bourgeois #communist

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#acquired #add #being #brings #capital

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ↗

— Karl Marx

#class #history #previous #societies #struggles

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. ↗

— Karl Marx

#nothing #object #utility #value #without

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. ↗

— Karl Marx

#because #below #far #labor #mental

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#being #gregarious #human #human being #itself

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. ↗

— Karl Marx

#greatly #idlers #increased #machinery #number