Quotes About Karl Marx

history hit a curve, and as Karl Marx once quipped, when that happens, the intellectuals fall off.

I remember that Karl Marx line about religion being the opium of the people—his idea that the elites keep the masses subdued with illusory happiness.

His cap may be emblazoned with equality, but Anderson's pen smacks of racism, which was true also of the undoubtedly great Karl Marx.

Learning the lessons of past victories, as well as defeats, can arm a new generation of fighters for a better world. As Karl Marx said, "The philosophers have merely interpreted the world; the point however is to change it.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.

Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.

For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the abolition of classes not the improvement of the existing society but the foundation of a new one.

As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.

Uno spettro si aggira per l'Europa: lo spettro del comunismo.

Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison Reform: for the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism. It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois—for the benefit of the working class.

The charges against communism made from a religious, philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.

The commodity is, first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind.

One has to 'leave philosophy aside,' one has to leap out of it and devote oneself like an ordinary man to the study of actuality . . . Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as masturbation and sexual love.

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism.

Volume 2 of Capital has indeed been not only a 'sealed book', but also a forgotten one. To a large extent, it remains so to this very day.

They do not signify that tomorrow a miracle will happen. They show that, within the ruling-classes themselves, a foreboding is dawning, that the present society is no solid crystal, but an organism capable of change, and is constantly changing.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

Religion is the moan of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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