Famous Karl Marx Quotes On Capitalism And Religion
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Best known for his works, inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century.
Karl Marx Quotes
1 – “Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.” – Karl Marx
2 – “The extremity of this bondage is that it is only as a worker that he continues to maintain himself as a physical subject, and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.” – Karl Marx
3 – “The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present” – Karl Marx
4 – “Hic Rhodus, hic Salta! Here is the rose, here dance!” – Karl Marx
5 – “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps” – Karl Marx
6 – “Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.” – Karl Marx
7 – “Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.” – Karl Marx
8 – “As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.” – Karl Marx
9 – “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion” – Karl Marx
10 – “Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.” – Karl Marx
11 – “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.” – Karl Marx
12 – “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” – Karl Marx
13 – “The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.” – Karl Marx
14 – “In fact, the proposition that man’s species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man’s essential nature.” – Karl Marx
15 – “Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one’s breath, sucking the life-blood from one’s own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.” – Karl Marx
16 – “All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.” – Karl Marx
17 – “Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.” – Karl Marx
18 – “Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.” – Karl Marx
19 – “Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.” – Karl Marx
20 – “The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.” – Karl Marx
21 – “The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.” – Karl Marx
22 – “Man makes religion, religion does not make a man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.” – Karl Marx
23 – “Nobody — not even “a musician of the future” — can live upon future products.” – Karl Marx
24 – “Atheism” … reminds one of the children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogyman. Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842” – Karl Marx
25 – “Ignorance never yet helped anybody.” – Karl Marx
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26 – “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx
27 – “History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.” – Karl Marx
28 – “Machinery which is not used is not capital.” – Karl Marx
29 – “As individuals express their life, so they are.” – Karl Marx
30 – “The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.” – Karl Marx
31 – “The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.” – Karl Marx
32 – “Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.” – Karl Marx
33 – “I am a machine condemned to devour books.” – Karl Marx
34 – “Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.” – Karl Marx
35 – “All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.” – Karl Marx
36 – “The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” – Karl Marx
37 – “Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.” – Karl Marx
38 – “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.” – Karl Marx
39 – “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” – Karl Marx
40 – “Political power, properly so-called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.” – Karl Marx
41 – “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.” – Karl Marx
42 – “To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is the man himself.” – Karl Marx
43 – “It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.” – Karl Marx
44 – “The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.” – Karl Marx
45 – “Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.” – Karl Marx
46 – “The best thing for rich people to do is become Batman” – Karl Marx
47 – “You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.” – Karl Marx
48 – “A commodity appears, at first sight, an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.” – Karl Marx
49 – “If you love without evoking love in return – if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.” – Karl Marx
50 – “Education is free. Freedom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state” – Karl Marx
