Karl Marx Quotes (Author of Communist Manifesto)
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labor and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published numerous works during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894).
Best Karl Marx Quotes:
Karl Marx Quotes
1. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
― Karl Marx
2. 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
3. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
― Karl Marx
4. You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths.
― Karl Marx
5. All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy.
― Karl Marx
6. I am nothing but I must be everything.
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
7. I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
― Karl Marx
8. Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
― Karl Marx
9. What is genuine is proved in the fire, what is false we shall not miss in our ranks. The opponents must grant us that youth has never before flocked to our colours in such numbers, ... in the end, one will be found among us who will prove that the sword of enthusiasm is just as good as the sword of genius.
― Karl Marx
10. 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.
― Karl Marx
11. The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.
― Karl Marx
12. If the laborer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.
― Karl Marx
13. History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
― Karl Marx
14. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
― Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
15. 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
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