50 Memorable Quotes By Karl Marx

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

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

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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

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

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

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

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.

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!

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

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

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

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.