Karl Marx Quotes

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

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

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.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

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

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.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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

From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

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.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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

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