Karl Marx was a German philosopher.Apart from being a philosopher, he was also a historian, economist, sociologist, political theorist, and journalist.Karl Marx’s critical theories about politics, society,and history are commonly termed under the broad concept of Marxism. Marx wrote many books that are widely read and perceived as a concept worldwide. His books primarily concern politics and philosophy.
Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818. He completed his early and higher education in his hometown Trier. During his college education, he became more inclined towards philosophies, literature, and politics. He was initially interested in philosophy and politics and wanted to pursue the subjects in college, but his father insisted on studying law.
He authored several research papers, among which the most renowned is The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital. Karl Marx has been an important name in the school of politics, intellectuality, and philosophy. His name has been used as a noun, an adjective, and a social-political theory.
Here are some great quotes by Karl Marx that will give you a new perspective on life.
Karl Marx Quotes
- History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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- The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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- Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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- Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
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- History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
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- History does nothing, it ‘possesses no immense wealth’, it ‘wages no battles’. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.
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- History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian.
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- The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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- The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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- The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
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- Democracy is the road to socialism.
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- The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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- Religion is the opium of the masses.
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- The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.
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- If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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- When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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- The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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- The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
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- Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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- A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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- Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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- All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.
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- I am nothing but I must be everything.
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- To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
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- Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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- I am a machine condemned to devour books.
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- The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question.
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- The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
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- The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions
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- The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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- The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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- The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
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- Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
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- Political Economy regards the proletarian … like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.
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- Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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- Moments are the elements of profit
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- The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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- Landlords like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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- Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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- Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
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- The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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More Karl Marx quotes and sayings
- The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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- Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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- Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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- Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
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- Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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- The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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- The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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- The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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- To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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Conclusion
Karl Marx died on 14 March 1883. He is regarded as the greatest thinker the world has ever seen and had the privilege to witness. His ideas and thoughts on philosophy, politics, and society are widely studied across the globe.The Marxist school of thought is one of the greatest ideologies that has later derived many other ideologies around the world. Karl Marx will always be remembered for his great thoughts.