Karl Marx Quotes

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

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries unite!

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.

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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.

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

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

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

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

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

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