Top 418 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Marx - Page 2

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

The unity is brought about by force .

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

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

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.