Karl Marx Quotes

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Karl Marx

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Karl Marx

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Karl Marx

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx