Top 400 Karl Marx Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”

— Karl Marx

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2. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

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3. “Democracy is the road to socialism.”

— Karl Marx

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4. “Follow your own path, no matter what people say.”

— Karl Marx

5. “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

— Karl Marx

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6. “Religion is the opium of the masses.”

— Karl Marx

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7. “In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.”

— Karl Marx

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8. “Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”

— Karl Marx

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9. “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

— Karl Marx

10. “I am nothing but I must be everything.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

12. “If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

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14. “Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.”

— Karl Marx

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15. “Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.”

— Karl Marx

16. “Ideas do not exist separately from language.”

— Karl Marx

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17. “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

— Karl Marx

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18. “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.”

— Karl Marx

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19. “Communism begins where atheism begins...”

— Karl Marx

20. “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!”

— Karl Marx

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21. “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

— Karl Marx

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22. “The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.”

— Karl Marx

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23. “Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”

— Karl Marx

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24. “There is only one way to kill capitalism – by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.”

— Karl Marx

25. “To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”

— Karl Marx

26. “In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.”

— Karl Marx

27. “The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.”

— Karl Marx

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28. “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”

— Karl Marx

29. “I hate money and Jews.”

— Karl Marx

30. “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.”

— Karl Marx

31. “Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.”

— Karl Marx

32. “The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism.”

— Karl Marx

33. “Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”

— Karl Marx

34. “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.”

— Karl Marx

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35. “Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.”

— Karl Marx

36. “Music is the mirror of reality.”

— Karl Marx

37. “There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.”

— Karl Marx

38. “The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.”

— Karl Marx

39. “Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

41. “Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.”

— Karl Marx

42. “Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.”

— Karl Marx

43. “Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”

— Karl Marx

44. “To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.”

— Karl Marx

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45. “The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.”

— Karl Marx

46. “Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.”

— Karl Marx

47. “Go on, get out – last words are for fools who haven’t said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.”

— Karl Marx

48. “The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.”

— Karl Marx

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49. “The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.”

— Karl Marx

50. “Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.”

— Karl Marx