Karl Marx Quotes

"A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish."

"A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism."

"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."

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

"Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included)."

"Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth."

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends."

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

"I am nothing but I must be everything."

"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."

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

"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

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

"Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same."

"Neither of us cares a straw for popularity."

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

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people."

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering."

"The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money."

"The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way."

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

"The importunity of the fellow is also niggerlike."

"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."

"The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

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

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."

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

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."

"The uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat."

"The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself."

"There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism."

"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."

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