Famous Karl Marx Quotations

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"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."
by Karl Marx
"Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation."
by Karl Marx
"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex."
by Karl Marx
"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need."
by Karl Marx
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
by Karl Marx
"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time"
by Karl Marx
"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society"
by Karl Marx
"Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will"
by Karl Marx
"From each, according to his ability to each, according to his need."
by Karl Marx
"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."
by Karl Marx
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
by Karl Marx
"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."
by Karl Marx
"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness."
by Karl Marx
"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state"
by Karl Marx
"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm."
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex"
by Karl Marx
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
by Karl Marx
"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
by Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under Religion.
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother."
by Ronald Reagan
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
by Karl Marx
"The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object"
by Karl Marx
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
by Karl Marx
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
by Karl Marx (1845)
"The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
by Karl Marx
"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
by Karl Marx
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
by Karl Marx
"Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."
by Karl Marx
"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."
by Karl Marx
"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."
by Karl Marx
"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great."
by Clement Attlee
"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."
by Karl Marx
"Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents."
by Karl Marx
"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."
by Karl Marx
"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."
by Karl Marx
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
by Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
by Karl Marx to a housemaid
"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."
by Karl Marx
"Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases."
by Karl Marx
"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
by Karl Marx
"The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia"
by Karl Marx
"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."
by Karl Marx
"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
by Karl Marx
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
by Karl Marx
"As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality."
by Karl Marx
"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest."
by Karl Marx
"The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent."
by Karl Marx
"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."
by Karl Marx
"Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
by Karl Marx
"The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka."
by Aleister Crowley
"Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
by Karl Marx
"From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again."
by Karl Marx
"Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people."
by Karl Marx
"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."
by Karl Marx
"In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off."
by Karl Marx
"I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles."
by Karl Marx
"Filosoferna har bara uttolkat världen; det viktiga är emellertid att förändra den."
by Karl Marx.
"The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite."
by Karl Marx
"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
by Karl Marx
"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."
by Karl Marx
"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic."
by Karl Marx
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
by Karl Marx
"All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the eart..."
by Karl Marx
"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of ..."
by Karl Marx
"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself on..."
by Karl Marx
"Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law."
by Warren Beatty


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