Karl Marx Quotes

Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must ...

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bea...

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruli...

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man ...

The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but ...

Religion is the opium of the people.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea...

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body fro...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various process...

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is depend...

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which th...

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class ...

To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the m...

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations with...

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was p...

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is de...

In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensabl...

...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered int...

But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags...

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, pa...

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society t...

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossa...

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, op...

Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in h...

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest spr...

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of pro...

What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary dispos...

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are ...

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is t...

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philis...

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society pr...

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose bu...

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been ...

The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as oft...

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ough...

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulin...

The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual ...

As individuals express their life, so they are.

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of v...

The mystery of this courage of Bauer’s is Hegel’s Phenomenology. As Hegel here puts self-consciousne...

Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, a...

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make...

The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfi...

This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis...

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather suffici...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soul...

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled ...

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine...

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing b...

Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the...

The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of soci...

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person payin...

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ab...

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more...

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...

...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless critic...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it...

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations ...

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ...

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live an...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be ful...

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...

Religion is the opiate of the people.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!