Karl Marx Quotes
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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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.
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The very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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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.
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage.
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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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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.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.