Karl Marx Quotes

Karl Marx  (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia, he later became stateless and spent much of his life in London in the United Kingdom. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought.He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894).

Some Famous quotes by Karl Marx. 

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

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

Democracy is the road to socialism..

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..

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.

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!

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

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

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from 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.

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.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

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.

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

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

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

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

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

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

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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