Karl Marx Philosophical Quotations

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

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

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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

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

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

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

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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

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