Karl Marx Quotes

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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

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

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

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

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Men make their own history

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

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

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

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

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

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

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.