Famous Quotes by Karl Marx

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

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.

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

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Men make their own history.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

So a god has snatched from me my all, in the curse and rack of destiny.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.