Quotes About Karl Marx

#1. But however imperfect, even repugnant, were particular policies, particular actions, there remained the purity of the ideal, represented in the theories of Karl Marx and the noble visions of many lesser thinkers and writers.

Howard Zinn

#2. The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

Karl Marx

#3. I am nothing and should be everything.

Karl Marx

#4. When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

Karl Marx

#5. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx

#6. Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

Karl Marx

#7. Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

Karl Marx

#9. The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

Karl Marx

#10. 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.

Karl Marx

#11. Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

Ronald Reagan

#12. Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

Gideon Defoe

#13. When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Karl Marx

#14. I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism - which isn't Russian anyway, Karl Marx was Russian.

Param Vyas

#15. From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.

Karl Marx

#16. Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Karl Marx

#17. The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

Karl Marx

#18. To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

Karl Marx

#19. The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

Karl Marx

#20. This is what distinguishes the philosopher from the Christian. The Christian, in spite of logic, has only one incarnation of the Logos; the philosopher has never finished with incarnations.

Karl Marx

#21. The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman

Karl Marx

#22. 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

#23. The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.

Sydney J. Harris

#24. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Karl Marx

#25. The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.

Karl Marx

#26. We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

#28. So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

Karl Marx

#29. Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

Karl Marx

#30. 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 .

Karl Marx

#31. Capital, therefore, announces from its first appearance a new epoch in the process of social production.

Karl Marx

#32. An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

Karl Marx

#33. There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

Karl Marx

#34. Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Karl Marx

#35. Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.

Rachel Holmes

#36. I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

Steve Jobs

#37. If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.

Karl Marx

#38. They don't know it, but they are doing it.

Karl Marx

#39. The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

Karl Marx

#40. Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dick Armey

#41. As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

Karl Marx

#42. Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.

Karl Marx

#43. If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.

Karl Marx

#44. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

#46. In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

Karl Marx

#47. Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Daniel Quinn

#48. The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Karl Marx

#49. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Robert Frost

#50. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument.

Karl Marx

#51. I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Karl Marx

#53. Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Karl Marx

#54. Communism is what Karl Marx hoped could be an economic scheme for making industrialized nations take as good care of people, and especially of children and the old and disabled, as tribes and extended families used to do, before they were dispersed by the Industrial Revolution.

Kurt Vonnegut

#55. Karl Marx, Amaya liked to say, was the last great philosopher of the coal age; his workers were locked into a serflike condition. Had Marx witnessed the industrial explosion of the Oil Century and the rising standard of living it produced among ordinary workers, he might have written differently.

David Halberstam

#56. The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx

#57. Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Karl Marx

#58. The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Karl Marx

#59. If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Karl Marx

#60. [Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Karl Marx

#61. The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

Muhammad Iqbal

#62. Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Karl Marx

#63. But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

#65. Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#66. The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Karl Marx

#67. Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.

Karl Marx

#68. There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Al Capp

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

Karl Marx

#70. I laugh at the so-called 'practical' people and their wisdom. If one wants to live like a beast, it could naturally do, to turn its back on humanity's suffering and only care about its own pelt.

Karl Marx

#71. To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

Karl Marx

#72. The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

#74. Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Karl Marx

#75. Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Hannah Arendt

#76. The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Karl Marx

#77. Defining by a general law the expenditures on the ... school ... is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.

Karl Marx

#78. They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please.

Karl Marx

#79. To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

Karl Marx

#80. And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution
what awaits them?

Karl Marx

#81. An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

Karl Marx

#82. Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

Karl Marx

#83. How lame an anti-climax! If the working-class has remained "poor," only "less poor" in proportion as it produces for the wealthy class "an intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power," then it has remained relatively just as poor.

Karl Marx

#84. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Karl Marx

#85. But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Karl Marx

#86. Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Karl Marx

#87. The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

Karl Marx

#88. All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Karl Marx

#89. Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

Karl Marx

#90. A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

Karl Marx

#91. 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.

Karl Marx

#92. In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

Karl Marx

#93. If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

Karl Marx

#94. As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

Karl Marx

#95. The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

#97. Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

Karl Marx

#98. Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

#99. In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

Karl Marx

#100. Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough ...

Karl Marx