Der Philosoph legt sich – also selbst eine abstrakte Gestalt des entfremdeten Menschen – als den Maßstab der entfremdeten Welt an.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)

“Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew — not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. … What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money… 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. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”

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Karl Marx livre On the Jewish Question

On the Jewish Question (1843)

“The unity is brought about by force.”

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Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 70.

“A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 31, pg. 829.
(Buch I) (1867)

“One capitalist always kills many.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 836.
(Buch I) (1867)

“man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse”

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Karl Marx livre Le Capital

Vol. I, Ch. 9, pg. 252.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges, whereby different products of labour are practically equated to one another and thus by practice converted into commodities.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 2, pg. 99.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Technology discloses the active relation of man towards nature, as well as the direct process of production of his very life, and thereby the process of production of his basic societal relations, of his own mentality, and his images of society, too.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 13: "Machinery and Big Industry".
(Buch I) (1867)

“The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.”

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Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg. 86.
(Buch I) (1867)

“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”

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Karl Marx livre Le Capital

Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 449.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)

“But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation.”

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Karl Marx livre Le Capital

Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 837.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

“Since property here exists in the form of stock, its movement and transfer become purely a result of gambling on the stock exchange, where the little fish are swallowed by the sharks and the lambs by the stock exchange wolves.”

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Karl Marx livre Le Capital

Vol. III, Ch. XXVII, The Role of Credit, p. 440.
Das Kapital (Buch III) (1894)

“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic and must remain so if he does not wish to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, to fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”

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Source: The German Ideology (1845-1846), Vol. 1, Part 1.