674 Quotes by Karl Marx

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.