Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Karl Marx

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

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Karl Marx

This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.

Karl Marx

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

Karl Marx

Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.

Karl Marx

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Karl Marx

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

Karl Marx

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx