Karl Marx Quotes

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

The unity is brought about by force .

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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 production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

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