Karl Marx (1818-1883) - Historical Figures > Historical Figures with "M" Names

Karl MARX: The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Karl MARX: Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Karl MARX: The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Karl MARX: Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Karl MARX: The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Karl MARX: 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.

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

Karl MARX: Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Karl MARX: Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl MARX: The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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

Karl MARX: Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl MARX: Democracy is the road to socialism.

Karl MARX: The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

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.

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

Karl MARX: Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Karl MARX: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl MARX: Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl MARX: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.