674 Quotes by Karl Marx

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.