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Karl Marx Quotes - Page 4

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Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

Believe, Lasts, Fool

I am nothing but I must be everything.

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “On Religion”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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

Independent, Individuality, Individualism

BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.61, BookCaps Study Guides

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

People, Way, Communism

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

Stupid, Made, Property

Karl Marx (2007). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.106, Courier Corporation

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

Peaceful, Devil, Movement

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

Philosophical, Struggle, Class

"Karl Marx as Activist" by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.counterpunch.org. May 7, 2018.

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

Freedom, Philosophical, Consciousness

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.

Morning, Work, Mind

Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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

Society, Doe, Individual

Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Men, Consciousness, Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Utility

Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.462, Oxford University Press, USA

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Men, Wealth, Commodity

Karl Marx (2012). “Selected Essays”, p.58, The Floating Press

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Philosophical, Europe, Haunting

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1908). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Inspiration, Philosophical, Revolution

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Clemens Palme Dutt (1895). “The Class Struggles in France (1848-50)”

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.

Stupid, Intellectual, Made

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.112, Bloomsbury Publishing

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Business, Struggle, Wages

Karl Marx (1964). “Early writings”, McGraw-Hill Companies

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Ghouls, Division Of Labor, Vampire

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Philosophical, Dignity, Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Spiritual, Political, Social

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Philosophical, Men, Ideas

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.

Giving, Atheism, Facts

So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.

Evil, Historical, Development

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Class, Revolutionary, Working Class

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

Block, Real, War

"Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76, 1857-1858.

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