Quotes from Karl Marx

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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

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

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

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.

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

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

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

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.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.