Karl Marx Quotes

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

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

Moments are the elements of profit

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.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Religion ist die Unfähigkeit des menschlichen Verstandes, Ereignissen ins Gesicht zu sehen, die er nicht versteht.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

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!

El poder político es simplemente el poder organizado de una clase para oprimir a otra.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

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.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.