“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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard...”
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.”
Aesop
1 quote“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
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...”
Charles Baudelaire
1 quote“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
Montesquieu
1 quote“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 quote“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.”
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...”