Karl Marx Famous Quotes

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. -Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.-  Karl Marx

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. -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. -Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx

Nothing to lose but their chains, they have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! -Karl Marx

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. -Karl Marx

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. -Karl Marx

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. -Karl Marx

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. -Karl Marx

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. -Karl Marx

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 laborers. -Karl Marx

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. -Karl Marx

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. -Karl Marx

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. -Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. -Karl Marx

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. -Karl Marx

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. -Karl Marx

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.  -Karl Marx

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. -Karl Marx

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.  -Karl Marx

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.  -Karl Marx

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. -Karl Marx