Karl Marx > Quotes

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”
― Karl Marx, The German Ideology

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
― Karl Marx

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
― Karl Marx

“Question everything.”
― Karl Marx

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
― Karl Marx

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

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
― Karl Marx

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
― 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. Working men of all countries, unite!”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“I am nothing but I must be everything.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”
― Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
― Karl Marx

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”
― Karl Marx

“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”
― Karl Marx

“Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.”
― Karl Marx

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root. ”
― Karl Marx

“Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough...”
― Karl Marx

“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.”
― Karl Marx

“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?”
― Karl Marx

“The way people get their living determines their social outlook.”
― Karl Marx

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”
― Karl Marx

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
― Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.”
― 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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
― Karl Marx, The German Ideology

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx