79 Famous Quotes By Karl Marx That Show What A Great Thinker He Was
The German revolutionary socialist Karl Marx was also a philosopher, economist, sociologist, and journalist. Undoubtedly, the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century, he did not achieve much fame during his lifetime but his popularity soared in the decades following his death. As a young man he studied law for sometime before earning a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. His collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels led to several influential works including the 1848 pamphlet ‘The Communist Manifesto.’ Over his long career, Marx propounded several theories about society, economics and politics which came to be collectively known as Marxism. Regarded as one of the most influential figures in human history, his contribution to the development of intellectual, economic, and political history has been immense. This collection of quotes by Karl Marx brings to you his knowledge and wisdom in form of easy to read and short quotations.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
![The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/karl-marx-30452.jpg)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
I am nothing but I must be everything.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
![If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
[In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882]](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/karl-marx-30461.jpg)
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. [In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882]
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
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.
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.
Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
Moments are the elements of profit
Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state
If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.
The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
