Karl Marx
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.Collection: Great
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.Collection: Science
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.Collection: History
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.Collection: Peace
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.Collection: Religion
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.Collection: Society
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.Collection: History
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.Collection: Men
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.Collection: Future
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.Collection: Health
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.Collection: History
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.Collection: Religion
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.Collection: Time
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Nature
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.Collection: Age
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.Collection: Money
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.Collection: Religion
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.Collection: Men
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.Collection: Love
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.Collection: Money
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.Collection: Freedom
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.Collection: Society
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Time
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.Collection: Society
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.Collection: History
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.Collection: Men
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.Collection: Society
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.Collection: Society
Religion is the opium of the masses.Collection: Religion
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.Collection: Science
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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.
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.
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.