Karl Marx Quotes

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

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!

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

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

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

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.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery