Quotes by Karl Marx

About Karl Marx:

Karl Marx was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Germany, he later became stateless and spent much of his life in London in the United Kingdom. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894).
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

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Ser radical é tomar as coisas pela raiz. Mas, para o homem, a raiz é o próprio homem.

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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private proper...

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remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

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...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary li...

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The philosophers have only the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to it. [ ]

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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

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The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

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The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rus...

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If is the bond binding me to life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all ? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal of ?

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The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, ...

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As individuals express their life, so they are.

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Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse wit...

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Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their ha...

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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

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Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.

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Author Bio

  • NameKarl Marx
  • DescriptionGerman philosopher, economist, sociologist
  • AliasesKarl Heinrich Marx
  • BornMay 5, 1818
  • DiedMarch 14, 1883
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionEconomist; Journalist; Historian; Philosopher; Sociologist; Revolutionary
  • WorksEconomic And Philosophic Manuscripts Of 1844