“The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.”
More from Karl Marx on Economy
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
“Machinery which is not used is not capital.”
“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.”
“Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.”
“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Others on Economy
Adam Smith
4 quotes“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the ma...”
Margaret Thatcher
3 quotes“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Abraham Lincoln
2 quotes“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”
Frank Zappa
1 quote“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
Herbert Hoover
1 quote“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
José Saramago
1 quote“It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic pow...”
Lao Tzu
1 quote“The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and...”
Cicero
1 quote“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
Aesop
1 quote“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
Marshall McLuhan
1 quote“Affluence creates poverty.”
Booker T. Washington
1 quote“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race econom...”
Michel Foucault
1 quote“From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure”