“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
History
“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.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Karl Marx
“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”
Future“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
Happiness“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
History“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.”
Change“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
Society“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”
Art“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 opium of the masses.”
Religion“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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”
Time“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“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Health“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
Men“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”
Good“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
Religion“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.”
Science“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“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
History“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
Peace