Karl MarxModern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like … ▶371HumanityPoliticsReading
Karl MarxBourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. … ▶372HumanityPoliticsReading
Karl MarxYou will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves… ▶372HumanityPolitics
Karl MarxOn 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. ✨ Das Kapital… ▶351Time
Karl MarxHistory repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce. ✨ The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon.373Truth
Karl MarxIf anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. ✨ Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83, International Pub352Life
Karl MarxNecessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.363Reading
Karl MarxWorkers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.352Life
Karl MarxThe redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon so… ▶363Death
Karl MarxAnd as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-r… ▶363Time
Karl MarxThe materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forget… ▶364Time
Karl MarxWhile the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. ✨ Karl Marx (2007). Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist… ▶353Politics
Karl MarxThe 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.364Truth
Karl MarxFor the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. ✨ Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). Collected works353Love
Karl MarxThe task is not just to understand the world but to change it.332Love
Karl MarxThe social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille ✨ Karl Marx, Friedrich En… ▶343Love
Karl MarxBe aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. ✨ Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith, F. Engels (2009). Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, p.97, Co… ▶343Thought
Karl MarxThe education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.343PoliticsTime
Karl MarxThe alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.365Humanity
Karl MarxReligion 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. ✨ Karl Marx, Joseph O'Mal… ▶354HumanityLovePhilosophy
Karl MarxThe only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.321Sadness
Karl MarxEven an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have… ▶365HumanityPolitics
Karl MarxWhat the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. ✨ Karl Marx (2007). Capita… ▶322Politics
Karl MarxThere are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.333Reading
Karl MarxCrack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.322Thought
Karl MarxThis young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.366Life
Karl MarxThe whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be o… ▶356Reflection
Karl MarxI am nothing and should be everything. ✨ Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). Marx: Selected Writings, p.37, Hackett Publishing301Politics
Karl MarxThere is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. ✨ Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83, Interna… ▶334Sadness
Karl MarxThe less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more yo… ▶345LifeLoveReading
