674 Quotes by Karl Marx

It is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

It is not ""history"" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.