Karl Marx

(1818 - 1883)

• "Workers of all countries: Unite!"
  • Source: The Communist Manifesto

• "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it"
  • Soutce: Theses on Feuerbach

• "A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."

• "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. 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."
  • Source: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"

• "Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
  • Source: The Eighteenth Brumiare of Louis Bonaparte

• "Before all, therefore, the bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers."
  • Source: Capital

• "What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money."
  • Source: On the Jewish Question, Karl Marx