Quotes By Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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 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.

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.

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

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

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

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.

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.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

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.

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