Quotes by Karl Marx

"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people."

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

"If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."

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

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs."

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."

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

"Democracy is the road to socialism."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."

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

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"

"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

"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 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."

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

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