Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,...
KARL MARX The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ...
KARL MARX It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...
KARL MARX History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...
KARL MARX From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARX Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, ...
KARL MARX If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
KARL MARX The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
KARL MARX Democracy is the road to socialism.
KARL MARX Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
KARL MARX The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea...
KARL MARX Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
KARL MARX There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...
KARL MARX Religion is the opium of the masses.
KARL MARX The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...
KARL MARX A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
KARL MARX The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen...
KARL MARX Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
KARL MARX The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
KARL MARX Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
KARL MARX The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social b...
KARL MARX Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twic...
KARL MARX Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the p...
KARL MARX All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags P...
KARL MARX The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church a...
KARL MARX In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in ...
KARL MARX As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he real...
KARL MARX The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulin...
KARL MARX We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an...
KARL MARX From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian,...
KARL MARX Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of ...
KARL MARX In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accompli...
KARL MARX The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and t...
KARL MARX The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...
KARL MARX In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the d...
KARL MARX The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to ...
KARL MARX The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...
KARL MARX Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
KARL MARX Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful busine...
KARL MARX It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically differe...
KARL MARX The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the pola...
KARL MARX Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
KARL MARX The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...
KARL MARX The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
KARL MARX A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.
KARL MARX All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
KARL MARX The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruli...
KARL MARX Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
KARL MARX Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under c...
KARL MARX The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out ...
KARL MARX From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
KARL MARX Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fi...
KARL MARX Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closel...
KARL MARX Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of th...
KARL MARX Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
KARL MARX Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man ...
KARL MARX The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ...
KARL MARX In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of...
KARL MARX Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but...
KARL MARX Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
KARL MARX Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
KARL MARX Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
KARL MARX From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARX The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
KARL MARX Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek ...
KARL MARX I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourse...
KARL MARX Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ab...
KARL MARX Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of special...
KARL MARX Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various process...
KARL MARX The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the des...
KARL MARX On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie...
KARL MARX Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations withi...
KARL MARX In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be ful...
KARL MARX In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is depend...
KARL MARX The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live an...
KARL MARX The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
KARL MARX The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
KARL MARX The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
KARL MARX Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
KARL MARX Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soul...
KARL MARX Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine...
KARL MARX Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARX The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
KARL MARX Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
KARL MARX Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but ...
KARL MARX History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARX And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...
KARL MARX The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition ex...
KARL MARX The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
KARL MARX The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...
KARL MARX The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
KARL MARX We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man d...
KARL MARX Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life.
KARL MARX The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change ...
KARL MARX Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the sp...
KARL MARX The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
KARL MARX Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
KARL MARX Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which ...
KARL MARX Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportu...
KARL MARX The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge....
KARL MARX Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.
KARL MARX The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
KARL MARX From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need
KARL MARX The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...
KARL MARX Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society t...
KARL MARX A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered i...
KARL MARX Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
KARL MARX But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is de...
KARL MARX American politics consist of two bands of baron robbers, alternately taking possession of and plunde...
KARL MARX The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, ...
KARL MARX The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
KARL MARX Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers
KARL MARX Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
KARL MARX Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
KARL MARX All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coinci...
KARL MARX The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat
KARL MARX Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex
KARL MARX The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the pola...
KARL MARX There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep ...
KARL MARX Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARX The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman a...
KARL MARX The dictatorship of the proletariat.
KARL MARX ...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...
KARL MARX The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual ...
KARL MARX I am not a Marxist.
KARL MARX Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek ...
KARL MARX Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual lo...
KARL MARX The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humili...
KARL MARX Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in h...
KARL MARX It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the ...
KARL MARX Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps
KARL MARX When we bought this house, we designated this room the library,
KARL MARX History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
KARL MARX It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which th...
KARL MARX While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser
KARL MARX Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose bu...
KARL MARX The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilita...
KARL MARX La classe des ouvriers modernes, qui ne vivent qu'à la condition de trouver du travail, et qui n'en...
KARL MARX The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public h...
KARL MARX Hegel remarks somewhe...
KARL MARX Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it
KARL MARX Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it
KARL MARX The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it
KARL MARX Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...
KARL MARX No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind
KARL MARX If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

[In a letter about the p...
KARL MARX Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is t...
KARL MARX In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
KARL MARX The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion...
KARL MARX Die Gesamtheit dieser Produktionsverhältnisse bildet die ökonomische Struktur der Gesellschaft, di...
KARL MARX Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
KARL MARX Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations with...
KARL MARX A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectifi...
KARL MARX To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the m...
KARL MARX Cependant, pour les pays les plus avancés, les mesures suivantes pourront assez généralement êtr...
KARL MARX As use-values, commodities differ above all in quality, while as exchange-values they can only diffe...
KARL MARX A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectifi...
KARL MARX What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of lab...
KARL MARX As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
KARL MARX Machinery which is not used is not capital.
KARL MARX Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments,
and an artificial syste...
KARL MARX Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more...
KARL MARX La société bourgeoise moderne, élevée sur les ruines de la société féodale, n'a pas aboli les...
KARL MARX Not in vain does it [the proletariat] go through the stern but steeling school of labour. It is not ...
KARL MARX Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations ...
KARL MARX Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
KARL MARX Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under ...
KARL MARX This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis...
KARL MARX Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
KARL MARX Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appoint...
KARL MARX Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police st...
KARL MARX Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex
KARL MARX It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philis...
KARL MARX Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...
KARL MARX The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you t...
KARL MARX I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
GROUCHO MARX The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GROUCHO MARX Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
GROUCHO MARX I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west ...
GROUCHO MARX In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand...
HARPO MARX In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
HARPO MARX In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
HARPO MARX Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, w...
HARPO MARX Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
HARPO MARX I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
HARPO MARX I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX I intend to live forever, or die trying.
GROUCHO MARX I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
GROUCHO MARX High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX