Quotes By Karl Marx

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Hegel 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.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self - earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

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.

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

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