Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He is one of the first and greatest representatives of communism.
Here we listed Karl Marx quotes about communist manifesto, religion, capitalism and love
‘”When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.”‘
‘”In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.”‘
‘”We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”‘
‘”Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”‘
‘”The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”‘
‘”Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.”‘
‘”Communism begins where atheism begins.”‘
‘”We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.”‘
‘”Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”‘
‘”In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”‘
‘”If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”‘
‘”Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”‘
‘”Take away a nations heritage and they are more easily persuaded.”‘
‘”Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.”‘
‘”Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil,
slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole”‘
‘”The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.”‘
‘”Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.”‘
‘”The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.”‘
‘”My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.”‘
‘”Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”‘
‘”I am nothing but I must be everything.”‘
‘”This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.”‘
‘”In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.”‘
‘”Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”‘
‘”Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.”‘
‘”Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”‘
‘”The way people get their living determines their social outlook.”‘
‘”Follow your own path, no matter what people say.”‘
‘”When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.”‘
‘”The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”‘
‘”Man makes religion, religion does not make man”
‘” The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”‘
‘”Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.”‘
‘”The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry”‘
‘”The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”‘
‘”The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.”‘
‘”Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”‘
‘”For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.”‘
‘”Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”‘
‘”Democracy is the road to socialism.”‘
‘”Misery motivates, not utopia.”‘
‘”Religion is the opium of the masses.”‘
‘”It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”‘
‘”There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”‘
‘”Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”‘
‘”There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery”‘
‘”Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.”‘
‘”A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.”‘
‘”If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”‘
‘”The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”‘
‘”There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.”‘
‘”From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”‘
‘”To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”‘
‘”The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”‘
‘”Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”‘
‘”The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”‘
‘”Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”‘
‘”Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.”‘
‘”The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.”‘
‘”Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.”‘
‘”The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.”‘
‘”Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.”‘
‘”The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”‘
‘”Labour is … not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.”‘
‘”The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.”‘
‘”What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”‘
‘”I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.”‘
‘”If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day.”‘
‘”Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”‘
‘”Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.”‘
‘”The unity is brought about by force .”‘
‘”Men make their own history”‘
‘”Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.”‘
‘”With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.”‘
‘”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 past lies like a nightmare upon the present.”‘
‘”Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.”‘
‘”Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it”‘
‘”The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.”‘
‘”Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.”‘
‘”All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.”‘
‘”Communism… is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.”‘
‘”There is no greater stupidity than for people…to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.”‘
‘”We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”‘
‘”History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.”‘
‘”Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.” ‘
‘”Change the economic base and you will change human beings.”‘
‘”Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.”‘
‘”Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.”‘
‘”I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.”‘
‘”The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much”‘
‘”The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.”‘
‘”If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?”‘
‘”A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.”‘
‘”Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.”‘
‘”Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.”‘
‘”The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”‘
‘”Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.”‘
‘”Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”…the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.”‘
‘”If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.”‘
‘”The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”‘
‘”Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”‘
‘”Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”‘
‘”The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.”‘
‘”Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.”‘,
‘”There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.”‘
‘”Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”‘
‘”Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.”‘
‘”Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”‘
‘”Ideas do not exist separately from language.”‘
‘”Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.”‘
‘”Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”‘
‘”In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.” ‘
‘”Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”‘
‘”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!”‘
‘”Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.”‘
‘”History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”‘
‘”The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.”‘
‘”Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”‘
‘”An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.”‘
‘”Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.”‘
‘”The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.”‘
‘”But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.”‘
‘”Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.”‘
‘”The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.”‘
‘”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 .”‘
‘”The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”‘
‘”As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .”‘
‘”Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.”‘
‘”The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”‘
‘”What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”‘
‘”Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.”‘
‘”All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy”‘
‘”Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs”‘
‘”Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.”‘
‘”Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.”‘
‘”The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.”‘
‘”Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”‘
‘”The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.”‘
‘”The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.”‘
‘”If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty
limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.”‘
