Quotes by Karl Marx

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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

— Karl Marx

Success

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.

— Karl Marx

Love

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

Democracy is the road to socialism.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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

— Karl Marx

Success

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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.

— Karl Marx

Life

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

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

— Karl Marx

Freedom

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

— Karl Marx

Wisdom

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.

— Karl Marx

Life