Karl Marx Quotes

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas

Religion is the opium of the people.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Between equal rights, force decides

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity

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

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people

Revolutions are the locomotives of history