Top 400 Karl Marx Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.”

— Karl Marx

202. “The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.”

— Karl Marx

203. “The heart of a man is a wonderful thing, especially when it is carried in his wallet.”

— Karl Marx

204. “Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.”

— Karl Marx

205. “Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.”

— Karl Marx

206. “Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.”

— Karl Marx

207. “Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.”

— Karl Marx

208. “Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.”

— Karl Marx

209. “One capitalist always kills many.”

— Karl Marx

210. “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

211. “The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.”

— Karl Marx

212. “The way people get their living determines their social outlook.”

— Karl Marx

213. “A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.”

— Karl Marx

214. “The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.”

— Karl Marx

215. “In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.”

— Karl Marx

216. “The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.”

— Karl Marx

217. “The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much.”

— Karl Marx

218. “Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man’s animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.”

— Karl Marx

219. “The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille.”

— Karl Marx

220. “The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.”

— Karl Marx

221. “The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

— Karl Marx

222. “The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.”

— Karl Marx

223. “In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.”

— Karl Marx

224. “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.”

— Karl Marx

225. “The unity is brought about by force .”

— Karl Marx

226. “The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.”

— Karl Marx

227. “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

228. “All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.”

— Karl Marx

229. “Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.”

— Karl Marx

230. “The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.”

— Karl Marx

231. “In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.”

— Karl Marx

232. “It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

— Karl Marx

233. “In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.”

— Karl Marx

234. “But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole bourgeoisie in union. The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to women. He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.”

— Karl Marx

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

— Karl Marx

236. “The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .”

— Karl Marx

237. “Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.”

— Karl Marx

238. “Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.”

— Karl Marx

239. “Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”

— Karl Marx

240. “Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.”

— Karl Marx

241. “And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution – what awaits them?”

— Karl Marx

242. “A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.”

— Karl Marx

243. “Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.”

— Karl Marx

244. “The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.”

— Karl Marx

245. “I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.”

— Karl Marx

246. “The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.”

— Karl Marx

247. “Consciousness does not determine life, but life determines consciousness.”

— Karl Marx

248. “Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.”

— Karl Marx

249. “The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.”

— Karl Marx

250. “It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.”

— Karl Marx