674 Quotes by Karl Marx

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.