Quotes By Karl Marx

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

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 labourer.

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

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

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.