Source: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
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Famous Karl Marx Quotes
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'
“The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.”
“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
Source: Collected Works
“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
“For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
Source: The Class Struggles in France (1848-50)
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”
Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.”
Source: Manifesto of the Communist Party
“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
Source: Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society
“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
Source: Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844
“Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.”