Karl Marx Quotes (29 quotations)

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1. A new machine invented in England deprives millions of Chinese workers of their livelihood within a year's time. In this way, big industry has brought all the people of the earth into contact with each other, has merged all local markets into one world market, has spread civilization and progress everywhere. - Karl Marx

2. 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. - Karl Marx

3. 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. - Karl Marx

4. Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. - Karl Marx

5. Democracy is the road to socialism. - Karl Marx

6. For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. - Karl Marx

7. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. - Karl Marx

8. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. - Karl Marx

9. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. - Karl Marx

10. I am not a Marxist. - Karl Marx

11. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness. - Karl Marx

12. Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life. - Karl Marx

13. Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx

14. One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm. - Karl Marx

15. Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. - Karl Marx

16. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. - Karl Marx

17. Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx

18. Religion is the opium of the masses. - Karl Marx

19. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. 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. - Karl Marx

20. The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. - Karl Marx

21. The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. - Karl Marx

22. The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. - Karl Marx

23. 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. - Karl Marx

24. The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. - Karl Marx

25. The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it. - Karl Marx

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