Karl Heinrich Marx known as Karl Marx was a German Philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, journalist, sociologist, etc. He was born in Germany and studied law and philosophy. Marxism is a social, political, and economic theory originated by Karl Marx, which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class. He has huge followers to this day and inspired by millions across the world. Here are some of the powerful Karl Marx quotes. We have compiled Karl Marx famous quotes, Karl Marx philosophy quotes to get inspired from.
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
“Education is free. Freedom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state”
“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
“You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.”
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.”
“Moments are the elements of profit”
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.”
“The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions”
“All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.”
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
“Ignorance never yet helped anybody.”
“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity”
“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.”
“The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force must be overthrown by material force. But theory also becomes a material force once it has gripped the masses.”
“No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind”