Quotes from Karl Marx

The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

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 philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ These words are also inscribed upon his grave ]

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

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.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

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

I am nothing but I must be everything.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

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

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

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

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds ? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation ?

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

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

Capital is dead labor that, vampirelike, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it suck.