Karl Marx Quotes

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

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

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Music is the mirror of reality.

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

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

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

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

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

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

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

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

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

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.