Karl Marx quotes

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

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
- Karl Marx

The representation of private interests ... abolishes all natural and spiritual distinctions by enthroning in their stead the immoral, irrational and soulless abstraction of a particular material object and a particular consciousness which is slavishly subordinated to this object.
- Karl Marx

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

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities
- Karl Marx

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
- Karl Marx

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
- Karl Marx

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.
- Karl Marx

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
- Karl Marx

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.
- Karl Marx

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
- Karl Marx