Karl Marx (1818-1883) quotes

 

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
• Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
• Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
• Nothing can have value without being an object of utlity.
• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
• Religion is the opium of the masses.
• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
• Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
• The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
• The theory of Communists may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.