The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.


Karl Marx

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This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis...
KARL MARX
Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
KARL MARX
Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appoint...
KARL MARX
Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police st...
KARL MARX
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex
KARL MARX
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philis...
KARL MARX
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...
KARL MARX
The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you t...
KARL MARX
I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
GROUCHO MARX
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GROUCHO MARX
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
GROUCHO MARX
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west ...
GROUCHO MARX
In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand...
HARPO MARX
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
HARPO MARX
In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
HARPO MARX
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, w...
HARPO MARX
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
HARPO MARX
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
HARPO MARX
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
GROUCHO MARX
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
GROUCHO MARX
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX