Quotes by Karl Marx

“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand”

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

“A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed”

“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”

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

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

“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one”

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

“For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.”

“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser”

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

“Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a mans animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity”

“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this”

“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.”