Karl Marx Needs Quotations

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.