Karl Marx Quotes

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

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

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

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.

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

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

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

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

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

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

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

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

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.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

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

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .

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

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Religion is the opiate of the people.

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

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

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

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

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

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

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

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

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

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