German philosopher who advocated "merciless criticism of everything
existing" and was the co-originator of the theories of "Communism." Along with his
life-long friend and associate Frederick Engels. Marx and Engels were both active in various
revolutionary groups and together worked out the theory and tactics of "Revolutionary Proletarian
Socialism" or "Communism."
Marx was a central figure in the new organization, and author of its first statement, and a host
of resolutions, declarations and manifestos. Marx's most important work, "Das Kapital," was published in 1867.
Ultimately ill-health prevented him from completing two other volumes.
(1818 - 1883)
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible
without feminine upheaval.
~ Karl Marx
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.
~ Karl Marx
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
~ Karl Marx
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.
~ Karl Marx
The English have all the material requisites for
the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
~ Karl Marx
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
~ Karl Marx
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
~ 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
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis
brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
~ Karl Marx
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
~ Karl Marx
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.
~ Karl Marx
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
~ Karl Marx
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
~ 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
I am not a Marxist.
~ Karl Marx
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
~ Karl Marx
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
~ Karl Marx
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
~ Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person
- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
~ Karl Marx
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man
during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour.
~ Karl Marx
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
~ 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
Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
~ Karl Marx
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
~ Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the masses.
~ Karl Marx
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
~ Karl Marx
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.
~ Karl Marx
Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
~ Karl Marx
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
~ Karl Marx
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.
~ Karl Marx
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
~ Karl Marx
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.
~ Karl Marx
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
~ Karl Marx
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the
labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
~ Karl Marx
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
~ Karl Marx
Russian author, essayist and philosopher.
He is one of the world's pre-eminent writers becoming famous through his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Towards the end of his life, Leo Tolstoy became increasingly interested in a version of pacifist Christianity with support
for a strand of anarchist Communism. His exposition of pacifism, vegetarianism and non-violence had a profound influence on famous
personalities like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi considered Leo Tolstoy to be "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced".
(1828-1910)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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