Karl Marx Quotes

Natural science will, in time, incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will, in time, incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains..Workers of the world unite!

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human beast, the Furies of private interest.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles, one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its manoeuvres may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star.

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.

Experience praises the most happy, the one who made the most people happy.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i. e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

Capital is money; capital is commodities. By virtue of it being valued, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.