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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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.

Religious, Atheist, Heart

Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.131, CUP Archive

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

Book, Thinking, Dust

Karl Marx (1967). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1884”

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Transformation, Human Nature, Humans

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew - not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man - and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

Real, Jealous, Men

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

California, Lazy, Magnificent

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

Food, Drinking, Wine

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Strength, Depression, Pain

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

Tasks, World

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

Gun, Empires, Firsts

I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.

Money, Fighting, Reason

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

Class, States, Ruling

Karl Marx, Hal Draper, Friedrich Engels (1984). “The annotated communist manifesto”

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

Humility, Self, Quality

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1963). “The Communist manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

Misery motivates, not utopia.

Fear, Atheism, Misery

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Struggle, Class, World

Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, 5 Mar. 1852.

You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.

War, Struggle, Communication

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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.

Past, Men, Brain

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon pt. 1 (1852)

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

Class, Warfare, Would Be

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

Men, Doe, Criticism Of Religion

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Money, Men, Essence

Karl Marx, Regula Qureshi (2002). “Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics”, p.148, Psychology Press

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Giving Up, Victory, Arms

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Love, Philosophical, Men

Karl Marx (2007). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.52, Courier Corporation

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

Sex, Philosophical, Progress

"Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes".

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

Fall, Curves, Train

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Communist Manifesto, Certain, Marxist

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Tyrants, Chains, Tyranny

"The Karl Marx Library: On the First International".

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