Top 59 Quotes by Karl Marx

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.

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

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

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

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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

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

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

On 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.