Karl Marx Quotes:
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx
A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.
Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx