Karl Marx

I hate money and Jews.

— Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses.

— Karl Marx

Men make their own history

— Karl Marx

Parrots are the opium of the people

— Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

— Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

— Karl Marx

The unity is brought about by force .

— Karl Marx

I am not a Marxist.

— Karl Marx

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

— Karl Marx

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

— Karl Marx

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

“Machinery which is not used is not capital.”

— Karl Marx

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

— Karl Marx

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

— Karl Marx

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

— Karl Marx

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

— Karl Marx

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

— Karl Marx

“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

— Karl Marx

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

— Karl Marx

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

— Karl Marx

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

— Karl Marx

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

— 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…

— Karl Marx

“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out…

— Karl Marx

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly…

— Karl Marx

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets…

— Karl Marx

Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form…

— Karl Marx

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in…

— Karl Marx

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange…

— 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…

— Karl Marx

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social… The Communists have not…

— Karl Marx

“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because…

— Karl Marx

“The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the…

— Karl Marx

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must…

— Karl Marx

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you…

— Karl Marx

The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --…

— Karl Marx

“The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by…

— Karl Marx

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses,…

— Karl Marx