--- title: "20 Mean Quotes By Karl Marx" description: "20 Mean quotes by Karl Marx. Plus more from Karl Marx and more Mean sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e5/karl-marx-399_community_only-in-community-with-others-has-each-i_1282787.jpg" --- > [Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/only-in-community-with-others-has-each-individual-the-means-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e5/karl-marx-399_community_only-in-community-with-others-has-each-i_1282787.jpg) > [The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-most-violent-mean-and-malignant-passions-of-the-human-breast-the/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/karl-marx-399_breasts_the-most-violent-mean-and-malignant-pass_363676.jpg) > [Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/since-the-working-class-lives-from-hand-to-mouth-it-buys-as-long-as/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/karl-marx-399_buys_since-the-working-class-lives-from-hand_198668.jpg) > [The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-burgeoisie-by-the-rapid-improvement-of-all-instruments-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f91/karl-marx-399_bourgeoisie_the-burgeoisie-by-the-rapid-improvement_54421.jpg) > [Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/communism-deprives-no-man-of-the-ability-to-appropriate-the-fruits-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46d/karl-marx-399_ability_communism-deprives-no-man-of-the-ability_1864444.jpg) > [Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/each-piece-of-money-is-a-mere-coin-or-means-of-circulation-only-so/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61c/karl-marx-399_circulation_each-piece-of-money-is-a-mere-coin-or-me_3226190.jpg) > [Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/modern-bourgeois-society-with-its-relations-of-production-of-exchange/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da9/karl-marx-399_able_modern-bourgeois-society-with-its-relati_1261044.jpg) > [If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/if-this-labourer-were-in-possession-of-his-own-means-of-production/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/karl-marx-399_hours_if-this-labourer-were-in-possession-of-h_85005.jpg) > [History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/history-does-nothing-possesses-no-enormous-wealth-fights-no-battles/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/karl-marx-399_activity_history-does-nothing-possesses-no-enormo_2078832.jpg) > [The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-capitalist-knows-that-all-commodities-however-scurvy-they-may/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ec/karl-marx-399_capitalist_the-capitalist-knows-that-all-commoditie_2165855.jpg) > [In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/in-the-domain-of-political-economy-free-scientific-inquiry-meets-not/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54c/karl-marx-399_battle_in-the-domain-of-political-economy-free_3081098.jpg) > [By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/by-means-of-the-banking-system-the-distribution-of-capital-as-a/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/def/karl-marx-399_banking_by-means-of-the-banking-system-the-distr_1804412.jpg) > [An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/an-increase-in-the-productivity-of-labour-means-nothing-more-than/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/karl-marx-399_increase_an-increase-in-the-productivity-of-labou_2109589.jpg) > [Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/nature-is-man-s-inorganic-body-that-is-to-say-nature-insofar-as-it-is/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7a/karl-marx-399_body_nature-is-man-s-inorganic-body-that-is-t_1654702.jpg) > [ \[The career a young man should choose should be\] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-career-a-young-man-should-choose-should-be-one-that-is-most/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cf/karl-marx-399_career_the-career-a-young-man-should-choose-sho_2188799.jpg) > [The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-monopoly-of-capital-becomes-a-fetter-upon-the-mode-of-production/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec3/karl-marx-399_capitalism_the-monopoly-of-capital-becomes-a-fetter_2454315.jpg) > [As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/as-for-slavery-there-is-no-need-for-me-to-speak-of-its-bad-aspects/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/karl-marx-399_america_as-for-slavery-there-is-no-need-for-me-t_2673325.jpg) > [The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-ideas-of-the-ruling-class-are-in-every-epoch-the-ruling-ideas-i-e-2/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/karl-marx-399_class_the-ideas-of-the-ruling-class-are-in-eve_2922641.jpg) > [The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-prussians-win-the-centralization/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/karl-marx-399_centre_the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-pruss_2646691.jpg) > [The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-prussians-win-the-centralisation/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7a/karl-marx-399_centre_the-french-need-a-thrashing-if-the-pruss_1346460.jpg) ## Other authors on Mean ## More by Karl Marx > [“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/economists-have-a-singular-method-of-procedure-there-are-only-two/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/as-the-variable-capital-always-stays-in-the-hands-of-the-capitalist/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/money-degrades-all-the-gods-of-man-and-converts-them-into-commodities/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/as-a-beast-of-toil-an-ox-is-fixed-capital-if-he-is-eaten-he-no-longer/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/communism-is-the-genuine-resolution-of-the-antagonism-between-man-and/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/it-is-not-the-consciousness-of-men-that-determines-their-being-but-on/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/philosophy-is-to-the-real-world-as-masturbation-is-to-sex/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/go-on-get-out-last-words-are-for-fools-who-haven-t-said-enough/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/if-you-love-without-evoking-love-in-return-if-through-the-vital/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/do-not-be-deluded-by-the-abstract-word-freedom-whose-freedom-not-the/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-burgeoisie-by-the-rapid-improvement-of-all-instruments-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [Ideas do not exist separately from language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/ideas-do-not-exist-separately-from-language/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/so-in-jewry-we-recognise-a-contemporary-universal-anti-social/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-class-struggle-necessarily-leads-to-the-dictatorship-of-the/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) > [If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/if-this-labourer-were-in-possession-of-his-own-means-of-production/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mean/karl-marx/#itemlist", "name": "20 Mean Quotes By Karl Marx", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; 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