50 Memorable Quotes By Karl Marx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Life is too short to be anything but happy.

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

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

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

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

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

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.

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