History Quotes by Karl Marx

Men make their own history

— Karl Marx

“As individuals express their life, so they are.”

— Karl Marx

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

— Karl Marx

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

— Karl Marx

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

— Karl Marx

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

— Karl Marx

“The history of all hitherto existing society8 is the history of class struggles.”

— Karl Marx

“History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a…

— Karl Marx

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all…

— Karl Marx

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

— 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

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers… Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such…

— Karl Marx

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first…

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

— Karl Marx

“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected…

— Karl Marx

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances…

— Karl Marx

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country…

— 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

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

— Karl Marx

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into…

— Karl Marx

“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the…

— Karl Marx

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be…

— Karl Marx

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances,…

— Karl Marx

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not…

— Karl Marx

“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women…

— Karl Marx

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,…

— Karl Marx

“The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world — on the one hand universal intercourse…

— Karl Marx

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of…

— Karl Marx

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

— Karl Marx

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

— Karl Marx

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

— Karl Marx

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

— Karl Marx

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

— Karl Marx

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

— Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

— Karl Marx