Karl Marx

Music is the mirror of reality.

— Karl Marx

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

— Karl Marx

Misery motivates, not utopia.

— Karl Marx

One capitalist always kills many.

— Karl Marx

Religion is the balm of the people.

— Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

— Karl Marx

Men make their own history

— Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

— Karl Marx

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

— Karl Marx

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

— Karl Marx

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

— Karl Marx

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

— Karl Marx

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

— Karl Marx

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

— Karl Marx

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

— Karl Marx

“Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

— Karl Marx

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

— Karl Marx

“Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps”

— Karl Marx

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

— Karl Marx

The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk…

— Karl Marx

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded…

— Karl Marx

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to…

— 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

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing…

— Karl Marx

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have…

— Karl Marx

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in…

— Karl Marx

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of…

— Karl Marx

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest…

— Karl Marx

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the…

— 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

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

— Karl Marx

“Finally, there came a time when everything that men had considered as inalienable became an object of exchange, of traffic and could…

— Karl Marx

By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the…

— Karl Marx

“The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited…

— Karl Marx

“The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery…

— Karl Marx