Top 59 Quotes by Karl Marx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

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

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

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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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

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