Top 59 Quotes by Karl Marx

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!