674 Quotes by Karl Marx

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

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

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history