Karl Marx quotes

“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. ”

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. ”

— Karl Marx

“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”

— Karl Marx

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

— Karl Marx

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ”

— Karl Marx

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ”

— Karl Marx

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. ”

— Karl Marx

“The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.”

— Karl Marx

“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”

— Karl Marx

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. ”

— Karl Marx

“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. ”

— Karl Marx