Karl Marx Quotes

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

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

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around […]

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

The English Established Church… will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille.

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

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

By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most […]

The first requisite for the people’s happiness is the abolition of religion.