Karl Marx Quotes

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
― Karl Marx

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.
― Karl Marx

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
― Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
― Karl Marx

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
― Karl Marx

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
― Karl Marx

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.
― Karl Marx

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

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
― Karl Marx

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
― Karl Marx

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
― Karl Marx

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
― Karl Marx

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.
― Karl Marx

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
― Karl Marx

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
― Karl Marx

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
― Karl Marx

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.
― Karl Marx

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

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