Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.
— Robert Paul WolffThe world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaCalvin:'It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...What do you suppose that means?'Television: '...It means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet.
— Bill WattersonMarx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.
— A.E. SamaanMarx hated weakness in men, and considered the making of moral judgements as the last resort of the weak. To say 'That is morally wrong' is implicitly to say ' I am powerless to stop that, so I will inveigh against it'.
— Paul Robert WolffTo say that 'the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital', means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased.
— Karl MarxA use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured? By means of the quantity of the 'value-forming substance', the labour, contained in the article. This quantity is measured by its duration, and the labour-time is itself measured on the particular scale of hours, days etc.
— Karl MarxAs Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.
— Michael ShermerAs exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
— Karl MarxThe world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
— Irving Berlin