Memorable Quotes and quotations from Karl Marx

Karl Marx German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883)


Karl Marx - from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach"
- The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx -
- From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Karl Marx -
- It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx -
- Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx -
- Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx)
- The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx - Urban Dictionary, under "Religion."
- Religion is the opiate of the masses.

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

Karl Marx -
- The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.