Karl Marx Quotes

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

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

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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

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

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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.

The unity is brought about by force .

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.

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.