Karl Marx Quotes

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

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

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

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.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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

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

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.