Life Quotes by Karl Marx

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

— Karl Marx

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

— Karl Marx

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

— Karl Marx

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in…

— Karl Marx

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with…

— 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

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

— Karl Marx

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

— Karl Marx

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

— Karl Marx

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the…

— Karl Marx

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and…

— Karl Marx

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not…

— Karl Marx

“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the…

— Karl Marx

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow…

— Karl Marx

Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution…

— Karl Marx

“Thus, in imagination, individuals seem freer under the dominance of the bourgeoisie than before, because their conditions of life seem accidental; in…

— Karl Marx

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it…

— Karl Marx

[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity…

— Karl Marx

“The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban…

— Karl Marx

“Since the mass of the employed living labour is continually on the decline as compared to the mass of materialised labour set…

— Karl Marx

“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also…

— Karl Marx

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done…

— Karl Marx

“In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these…

— 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

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy…

— Karl Marx

“Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the…

— Karl Marx

“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose…

— Karl Marx

“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of…

— Karl Marx

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

— Karl Marx

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

— Karl Marx

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

— Karl Marx

“One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.”

— Karl Marx

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx