Karl Marx Quotes

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

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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.

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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