Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Marx More Quotes by Karl Marx More Quotes From Karl Marx The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got Karl Marx working-manmencountry If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. Karl Marx marxistcommunist-manifestocertain There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people. Karl Marx peoplelooksworld There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. Karl Marx self-harmpainsuicide Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive. Karl Marx landscapealivemen Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. Karl Marx atheismfeardream Man makes religion, religion does not make man Karl Marx criticism-of-religiondoemen Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. Karl Marx long-agogonedog The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities. Karl Marx reasonlifenegative The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. Karl Marx classbirthdayideas The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom. Karl Marx pressesmoralessence Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew. Karl Marx ageclassmen Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases. Karl Marx medicinediseasedoubt The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value . Karl Marx labourrealizingcirculation As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital . Karl Marx jehovahdivisionpeople The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. Karl Marx giving-uprealpeople The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. Karl Marx writingordermean Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money. Karl Marx dirtmay In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Karl Marx communist-manifestoincreaseproportion Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market. Karl Marx constructionprocesshouse
