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

“‎There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all life is too short to be anything but happy.”
― Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

“Question everything.”
― 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

“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

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
― Karl Marx

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

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

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
― 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

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

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

“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, 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

“Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.”
― Karl Marx

“They don't know it, but they are doing it.”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“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.”
― Karl Marx

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

“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 world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.”
― Karl Marx

“Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.”
― Karl Marx

“All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
― Karl Marx

“Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.”
― Karl Marx

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

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
― Karl Marx

“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”
― Karl Marx

“Go on, get out--last words are for fools who haven't said enough.”
― Karl Marx

“Moments are the elements of profit”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
― Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”
― 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. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice
-- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)”
― Karl Marx, Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877

“Die Religion...ist das Opium des Volkes”
― Karl Marx

“People make their own history, but not in conditions of their own making.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.”
― Karl Marx

“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

“Sejarah berulang: pertama sebagai tragedi, kemudian sebagai komedi.”
― Karl Marx

“Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is to change it,”
― Karl Marx