Quotes by Karl Marx

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The art object creates an audience with an artistic sense and able to taste the beautiful. Production thus produces not only an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

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Truth includes not only the result, but also the path leading to it.

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I sacrificed all my wealth in the name of revolutionary struggle. I don't regret it. On the contrary. If I could start my life over, I would do the same thing.

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I know only one thing: I am not a Marxist.

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I am friends with very few, but I appreciate them a lot.

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I do not at all believe that men are to serve as sureties against laws; on the contrary, I believe that laws should serve as safeguards against people.

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Events moderate people as much as people shape events.

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Religion is a sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as is the lifeless spirit. Religion is the opium of the people.

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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Do I not destroy the freedom of a species, when I insist that it be free in a way foreign to it?

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Even if life dies, death must not live.

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The process of human life consists in passing through different ages. However, all ages of man coexist with each other.

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Religion is only an illusory sun that moves around man, until he begins to move around himself.

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Religion is self-consciousness and the consciousness of man who has either not yet found himself or has lost himself again.

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It is not about drawing a line between the past and the future, but about realizing the thoughts of the past.

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Luxury is the antithesis of natural necessity.

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The most cowardly men, unable to resist, become merciless when they can manifest their absolute parental authority.

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Freedom is so characteristic of man that even its opponents understand this when they fight against its realization.

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The free development of everyone is the condition for the free development of all.

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It is disgusting to be under the yoke, even in the name of freedom.

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To take one as the basis of life and another as the basis of science is to allow the lie from the very beginning.

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Society is the essential communion of man with nature, the true resurrection of nature, naturalism realized by man and humanism realized by nature.

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An act of violence can only be eradicated by another act of violence.

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Experience makes the happiest the one who brought happiness to the greatest number of people.

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To be modest in relation to immodesty is the worst immodesty of the spirit.

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Desperation for one's own salvation turns personal weaknesses into weaknesses of humanity to ease one's conscience.

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The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living individuals.

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The writer does not look at his work as a means. His work is an end in itself; this is not a means, either for him or for others, namely that the writer sacrifices his means of existence to work, and when necessary even his personal existence.

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The writer must of course earn in order to be able to exist and write, but in no case does he have to exist and write in order to earn.

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Almost every divorce means the dissolution of the family, and even from a strictly legal point of view, the situation of the children and their property cannot be left to the arbitrary discretion of the parents. Thus, only the individual will, or rather the free will of the spouses, is taken into account, but the will of marriage, the moral substance of this relationship, is not taken into account.

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First of all, the opposition between "society" as an abstraction and the individual must be avoided.

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The individual is a social being. Therefore, any manifestation of its life - even if it does not represent a form of collectivity - is a manifestation and an affirmation of social life.

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Self-loathing is a snake that both poisons and tortures your heart, sucking the life-giving blood and pouring into it the poison of hatred and despair.

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A ghost haunts Europe - the ghost of communism.

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The human heart is an amazing thing, especially if the man carries his heart in his bag.

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The death of heroes is like a sunset.

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Faith free from any doubt in the authenticity of the love expressed by those who love is for the loved one a supreme pleasure, it is her faith in herself.

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Depressed by worry, the poor man is insensitive even to a beautiful sight.

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The kingdom of freedom really begins only where there is no more labor dictated by need and practical sense, and therefore by the nature of things this kingdom lies beyond the sphere of material production as such.

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The end for which unjust means are necessary is not a just end.

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Man is, in the most literal sense, not only an animal whose feature is communication, but also an animal that can only be kept apart by being in society.

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Man lives with the help of nature.

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Man is free not because of the negative power to avoid one or the other, but because of the positive power to manifest his true individuality.

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It is not atheism that debases man, but superstition and idolatry.

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Human nature is designed in such a way that man can achieve perfection only by acting for the perfection of his contemporaries, for their good.

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The human essence of nature exists only for social man: for only in society does nature represent for man the connection of one man to another.

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The more a man devotes himself to God, the less he remains in himself.

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Excessive seriousness is the most ridiculous, and excessive modesty is the bitterest irony.

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What is disease if not a life constrained in its freedom?

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Feeling subjugated by crude necessity has only a limited meaning.

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On entering science, as on entering hell, a requirement must be announced: self-respecting people must have no confidence in the other.

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The traditions of all dead generations press like a nightmare upon the minds of the living.

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Consciousness depends on science and the whole way of life of man. A republican has a different conscience from a royalist, a rich man has a different conscience from a poor man, a thinker has a different conscience from one who is unable to think.

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The "consciousness" of the privileged is indeed a privileged consciousness.

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The means of production of material life determines the social, political and spiritual process.

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Suffering, understood in the human sense, is man's self-consummation.

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Passion is an essentially human power that tends vigorously toward its object.

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Shame is a kind of anger, but directed inward.

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Shame is a kind of revolution.

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What the petty bourgeois wants - namely: to live and reproduce - doesn't he also want an animal? The sense of one's own human dignity, of freedom, must be awakened in the hearts of these people. Only this sense, which left the world with the Greeks, and in the time of Christianity dissolved into the deceptive mirage of the kingdom of heaven, can again make society a community of men assembled in the name of their highest goals.

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The essential form of spirit is joy, light.

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The existence of what I really love I feel as something necessary, and without it my existence cannot be full, satisfied, perfect.

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There are two kinds of courage: the courage of superiority and the courage of intellectual wretchedness, which finds its strength in its official position, from the consciousness that it wields in battle a privileged weapon.

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What can be said about man's attitude towards his own work, can also be said about man's attitude towards another man.

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The one who has been fascinated by the demon of ambition, the mind can no longer stop him, and he throws himself where this force irresistibly attracts him: he does not choose his place in society, but it is determined by chance and illusion.

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Only in a collective are there means for each individual to enable him to fully develop his abilities, and therefore only in a collective is personal freedom possible.

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There is nothing easier than to rejoice for any reason because of one's own moral perfection; it's easiest to do that with the dead.

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The direct, natural and necessary attitude of a man towards another man is the attitude of man towards woman. Therefore, based on this attitude, one can judge the level of general human culture.

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Human feelings must be humanized, a human feeling must be created that corresponds to the full richness of human nature and nature.

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Independent morality offends the universal principles of religion, and the special concepts of religion are contrary to morality.

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Each step of an action is more important than a dozen programs.

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There is nothing more horrible and humiliating than being a slave to a slave.

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There are no rights without obligations, just as there are no obligations without rights.

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No one fights against freedom, at most, man fights against the freedom of others.

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No one is bound to marry, but everyone, after marrying, is bound to observe the laws of marriage.

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"Public education with the help of the state" has no value. On the contrary, the state needs a very strict education from the people.

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The moral state demands of its members a state way of thinking, even if they come into opposition to the state authority, to the government.

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Ignorance is a demonic force, and we fear that it will cause more tragedies.

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The ideas with which our mind chains our consciousness are bonds from which it is impossible to escape without breaking your heart, these are the demons that man can overcome only by yielding.

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When a slave becomes master for a day, then, on this day, he is completely dominated by raw instincts.

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It seems that as mankind subdues its nature, man becomes the slave of other men or the slave of his own wickedness.

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Every man, in whom there is a talent like Raphael's, must have the opportunity to develop unimpeded.

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Each of us makes himself as he appears in the eyes of the other.

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I'm serious about something funny, when you imagine this something is actually funny.

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History repeats itself twice - first as tragedy, then as farce.

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Truth is not to be sought in the ghostly realms outside the world, not outside of time and space, not in some "God" that would probably exist within the world or outside of it, but much closer, in the very heart of man.

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Truly moral behavior consists precisely in avoiding any pretext for immoral behavior.

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True love manifests itself in discretion, modesty, even shyness of the lover towards his idol, and not in an explicit display of passion and premature familiarity.

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Truth is as modest as light.

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Truth is universal, not just me. The truth possesses me, and I do not possess the truth.

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The knowledge of truth must be true in itself, true knowledge is unfolded truth.

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Namely, hypocrisy hides behind God, not believing either in His reality or in the power of good; Namely, selfishness puts personal salvation above the salvation of the social whole.

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Criticism of religion frees man from illusions so that he can think, act, construct his reality as a wise man.

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It's easy to be holy when you don't want to be human.

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Not only man's wealth, but also his poverty acquires, within socialism, a human, and therefore social, significance. It is the passive connection that makes man feel the need of the greatest wealth - another man.

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He who enjoys wealth is, at the same time, both slave and master of his wealth, he is, at the same time, generous and chalice, capricious and arrogant, given to wild fantasies, delicate, educated, intelligent. He has not yet felt his wealth as some kind of foreign force, standing above him.

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The people who enslave another people make chains for themselves.

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A punishment must not inspire more disgust than the wrongdoing.

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Punishment is only a means of self-defense of society against violations of its conditions of existence. Wonderful is that society which knows no more effective method of self-defense than the executioner proclaiming his own brutality as eternal law.

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To inspire courage, the people must be made to fear themselves.

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On a flat plateau, any hill looks like a hill.

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We must openly warn against this kind of hypocritical friends, who, although they declare their agreement to the principles, doubt their realization, because the world is not yet ripe for them.

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Parents' love is the most selfless.

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The world has never been either corrected or intimidated by punishment.

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My work is a free manifestation of life and therefore a pleasure of life.

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Morality is "powerlessness in action". Every time she fights some vice, she is defeated.

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Morality is based on the autonomy of the human spirit.

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Moral power is impossible to create by paragraphs of law.

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The adult cannot become again without falling into childhood. But does he not enjoy the naivete of the child and must he not tend to reproduce the truth inherent in the child on a higher level?

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Imagination is a great gift, through its contribution to the development of mankind.

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The educator himself must be educated.

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Later, the natural sciences will include the science of man to the same extent that the science of man will include the natural sciences: both will be one science.

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The temporary separation is useful, because a continuous communion has an air of uniformity.

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Time is a stretch for skill development.

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Time has served my love in the same way that sun and rain serve a plant - for its growth in it are concentrated all my spiritual energy and all the power of my feelings. I feel human again in the full sense of the word, because I feel a great passion.

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Any truly strong character, as soon as it sets foot on the revolutionary path, finds new strength even in defeat.

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Universal modesty of spirit is reason, that universal independence of thought, which relates to every thing according to the very essence of that thing.

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The full manifestation of an individual will no longer represent an ideal, a vocation, and so on, only when the impact of the external world that contributes to the effective development of the individual's skills, will be taken under the control of the individuals themselves.

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In the vanity of the world, friendship is the only thing that matters in personal life.

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The devaluation of the human world increases in direct proportion to the rise of prices in the material world.

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Without limiting the scope of activity, nothing remarkable can be done in any field. It is the absolute duty of a legislator not to make into a crime what is in the nature of a misdemeanor, and even then only according to the circumstances. He must humanely correct all this as a social problem, because it would be an extreme injustice to sanction these crimes as anti-social crimes.

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Wealth, if viewed from a material point of view, consists only of a variety of necessities.

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A rich man is at the same time a man who needs the fullness of human manifestations of life, a man in whom his own realization appears as an inner necessity, like a need.

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To be a slave or to be a citizen - these are social definitions, the relation of a man A to a man B. A man A as such is not a slave. He is a slave in and through society.

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To be sensitive is to suffer.

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In reality, the "social-educational role" of the state lies in its rational and social existence.

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In science there is no broad road, and to the shining heights of science can only he who, fearing no weariness, soars along its stony paths.

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In the attitude towards woman, regarded as the victim and servant of public voluptuousness, is expressed that infinite degradation in which man finds himself with regard to himself.

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In politics, to achieve a certain goal, a pact can be made even with the devil himself - you just have to be sure that you will fool the devil, and not him.

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In the struggle with the truth, error reveals itself.

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Every nation can and must learn from others.

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All savings ultimately come down to saving time.

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Any emancipation consists in the fact that it restores the world to man, restores interpersonal relations to man.

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If interest properly understood constitutes the principle of all morality, we must therefore strive to make the private interest of an individual coincide with universal human interests.

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If modesty is a characteristic feature of research, this is more a sign of fear of truth than fear of falsehood.

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If you love without reciprocity, in other words, if your love does not give birth to a shared love, if your life as a loving person does not make you yourself loved, then your love is powerless, and it is a misfortune.

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If you want to admire art, you must be an artistically educated person.

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If you want to influence others, you need to be a person who really stimulates and encourages others to move forward.

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If a human character is created by certain conditions, we must therefore make these conditions more human.

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If man works only for himself, he may perhaps become a renowned scholar, a great sage, an excellent poet, but he can never become a truly perfect and great man.

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Brutality is characteristic of laws dictated by cowardice, because cowardice can only be energetic if it is brutal.

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Laws that punish for principles are based on a lack of principle, an immoral, coarse view of the state. These are an involuntary cry of guilty conscience.

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If the circumstances in which an individual lives make accessible to him only the one-sided development of a particular quality to the detriment of all others, this individual cannot overcome a one-sided development. No amount of moral preaching will help in this case.

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When building the future tenses is not our business, we know better what to do in the present.

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If legislation cannot decree morality, much less can it declare immorality to be legal.

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Every social form of property has its own morality.

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Talking about "natural justice" is nonsense.

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The state educates its members by making them members of the state, by transforming private ends in general, gross instinct, into moral inclinations, natural independence, into spiritual freedom.

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A rude, ill-educated man is ready to regard some passer-by as the worst and vilest creature on earth just because he has trampled on him. He makes his beatings a measure of human deeds.

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For the socialist, the whole of so-called universal history is nothing but the birth of man through the work of man.

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To be able to use things, man must be a man of culture.

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Dignity is what elevates man the most, what gives supreme nobility to his activity and all his aspirations.

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The ancients used to say: you should aspire to gain worldly goods to help your friends in need. What deeply human wisdom these words contain!

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If marriage were not considered the foundation of the family, it would not be subject to legislation, as, for example, friendship is.

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Ideas can achieve nothing. For the realization of some ideas, people are needed who must make a practical effort.