674 Quotes by Karl Marx

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

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

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.