“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)
“You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.”
—Astro Teller
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
― Karl Marx (1818-1883)