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Karl Marx Quotes


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.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

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

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

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.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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

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

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.