“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
Religion
“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
History“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace“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.”
Great“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.”
History“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.”
Science“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.”
Great“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
Society“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.”
Money“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.”
Money“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.”
Religion“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.”
Society“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
Society“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
History“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.”
Society“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
Future“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.”
Technology“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
History“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
Experience“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men