Karl Marx Quotes

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

I am nothing but I must be everything.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

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

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Prometheus is the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.

It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the other pole are grouped masses of men who have nothing to sell but their labour-power. Nor is it enough that they are compelled to sell themselves voluntarily. The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition and habit looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws. The organization of the capitalist process of production, once it is fully developed, breaks down all resistance.

A house sold by A to B does not wander from one place to another, although it circulates as a commodity.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.