Famous Karl Marx Quotes

  • Machinery which is not used is not capital. – Karl Marx

    Machinery which is not used is not capital.– Karl Marx

  • The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. – Karl Marx

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

  • The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. – Karl Marx

    The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.– Karl Marx

  • 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

    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

  • Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded. – Karl Marx

    Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.– Karl Marx

  • Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in. – Karl Marx

    Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.– Karl Marx

  • The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world. – Karl Marx

    The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.– Karl Marx

  • As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time. – Karl Marx

    As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.– Karl Marx

  • He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart. – Karl Marx

    He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.– Karl Marx

  • Ignorance never yet helped anybody. – Karl Marx

    Ignorance never yet helped anybody.– Karl Marx