50 Memorable Quotes By Karl Marx

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

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

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

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

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

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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.

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