50 quotes by Karl Marx to better understand your thoughts

The history of society up to the present day is the history of the class struggle.

Ideas can accomplish nothing. In order to realize ideas, men are needed who put a practical force to work.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Political power is the organized power of one class for the oppression of another.

Private property has made us so stupid and limited that an object is only ours when we own it.

The modern State Government is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the entire bourgeoisie.

The dominant ideas of an era have always been the ideas of the ruling class.

The bourgeoisie stripped the family of its sentimental veil and reduced the family relationship to a simple monetary relationship.

The increase in wages is nothing more than the payment of better wages to slaves, and does not earn the worker his destiny and his human dignity.

All that is solid melts into air.

I know that silence often takes away someone’s desire to hear a word, but there are times when words hurt more than silence.

What distinguishes one economic period from another is less what was produced than how it was produced.

Fear shuts the mouth of the innocent and makes the truth of the guilty prevail.

Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence; the essence dominates him and he adores it.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is the transition to a classless society.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The devaluation of the human world increases in direct proportion to the appreciation of the world of things.

Workers have nothing to lose in a communist revolution but their chains.

The oppression of man by man began with the oppression of woman by man.

The worker only feels comfortable in his spare time, because his work is not voluntary, it is imposed, it is forced labor.

Work is not the satisfaction of a need, but only a means to satisfy other needs.

Ideas are worthless without men who can put them into practice.

The more the worker produces, the less he has to consume, the more he creates values, the more he depreciates.

What characterizes communism is not the abolition of property in general, but the abolition of bourgeois property.

To be radical is to take things by the root, and the root for man is man himself.

The development of modern industry, therefore, shakes the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie

If the silkworm could weave to connect the two ends, while still being a caterpillar, it would be the perfect wage earner.

The worker needs respect more than bread.

Jesus works miracles and gives, man does not work miracles and sells.

Until now philosophers have been concerned with interpreting the world in various ways. What matters is transforming it.

The people who subjugate another forge their own chains.

Workers have no country. You can’t take from them what they don’t have.

It is not man’s conscience that determines his being, but, on the contrary, his social being that determines his conscience.

The first requisite for the happiness of peoples is the abolition of religion.

An idea becomes a material force when it wins over the organized masses.

In manufacture and craft, the worker uses the tool; in the factory, he is a servant of the machine.

Time is the field of human development.

It’s really good to have many friends, because when one is busy, you can help the others.

What characterizes the division of labor within modern society is that it engenders specialties, and with them, the idiocy of specialization.

Religion is the opium of the people.

Love is the way for man to fulfill himself as a person!

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

The eyes that only see the lie when they perceive the truth, blind.

Men make their own history, but they don’t do it as they please… the tradition of all dead generations oppresses the brains of the living like a nightmare.

Man makes religion, but religion does not make man.

The emancipation of the workers will be the work of the workers themselves.

Capitalism generates its own gravedigger.

People who make us laugh also make us cry.

History repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy and the second time as a farce.

If the appearance and essence of things coincided, science would be unnecessary.