Karl Marx Quotes and its meanings

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

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.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.