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

- Karl Marx

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

- Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

- Karl Marx

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

- Karl Marx

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

- Karl Marx

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

- Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

- Karl Marx

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

- Karl Marx

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

- Karl Marx

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

- Karl Marx

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

- Karl Marx

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

- Karl Marx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

- Karl Marx

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

- Karl Marx

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

- Karl Marx

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

- Karl Marx

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

- Karl Marx

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

- Karl Marx

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

- Karl Marx

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

- Karl Marx