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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. ↗

— Karl Marx

#another man #carcass #during #everything #hour

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

— Karl Marx

#nothing #object #utility #value #without

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. ↗

— Karl Marx

#epoch #every #force #i #ideas

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. ↗

— Karl Marx

#like #love #men #never #other

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

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. ↗

— Karl Marx

#doubts #heals #medicine #well

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

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. ↗

— Karl Marx

#into #itself #just #man #natural

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. ↗

— Karl Marx

#application #competition #division #does #extend