674 Quotes by Karl Marx

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.