Karl Marx Quotes – Insights from the Revolutionary Thinker

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

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Workers of the world, unite!

Religion is the opium of the people.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Capitalism is like a vampire that thrives on the blood of the working class.

The power of the state should be used to protect workers, not exploit them.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more it sucks.

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

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Karl Marx Quotes – Insights from the Revolutionary Thinker part 2

Civilization does not consist of bones, but of sap and iron.

Capital is money, capital is commodities.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers.

Reason has always existed, but not always in reasoning beings.

The quantity of money becomes less relative to the quantity of commodities.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased man’s power over nature and multiplied the output of useful things.

The bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers.

The most powerful force in human history is human necessity.

Change is the law of life.

Whoever does not master capital is mastered by it.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

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

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

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

Revolution is the locomotive of history.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

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

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

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

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing.

The product of mental labor—science—always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an ‘immense collection of commodities.’

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces, for which there is room in it, have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society.

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

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.