Quotes By Karl Marx

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

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

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 worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

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

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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

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

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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

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.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

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

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.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

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

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.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

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

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

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.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.