Karl Marx Quotes

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Moments are the elements of profit

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

I am nothing and should be everything.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

Religion is the balm of the people.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

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

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

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

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

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

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!

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

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

As individuals express their life, so they are.

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingmen of all countries unite!

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.