674 Quotes by Karl Marx

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.