Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Quotes

• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

• The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

• Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

• It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness.

• From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

• Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

• Tradition weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living.

• The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

• Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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

• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

• Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life.

• The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

• Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.

• Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

• The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object.