Karl Marx Quotes

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

Society, Person, Living

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx

Religion, Happiness, Abolition

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

Reason, Reasonable, Existed

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx

Experience, Happy, Made

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.
Karl Marx

Money, Live, Able

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

Change, Nature, Different

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

Society, Stand, Within

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx

History, Class, Struggles

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.
Karl Marx

Money, Living, Value

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

Life, Health, Society

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

Good, Philosophy, Seems

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx

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.
Karl Marx

Time, Nothing, Everything

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx

Nothing, Value, Object

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx

Future, Country, Less

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx

Love, Men, Reap

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.
Karl Marx

Science, Far, Value

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
Karl Marx

Europe, Communism, Haunting

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Everything, Done, General

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl Marx

Nothing, Lose, Workers

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.
Karl Marx

Time, Society, Same

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx

May, Said, Labor

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx

Mad, While, Gone

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

History, May, Cannot

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

Age, Ideas, Class

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 5, 1818

Died: March 14, 1883

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