Born 5 May 1818, Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Some of his famous quotes:
1. The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
2. Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren’t his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he’s lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself
3. Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
4. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people
5. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being
6. Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!
7. You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
8. Education is free. Freedom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
9. Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world of its proper value
10. Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
11. The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope
12. Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through
13. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form
14. The extremity of this bondage is that it is only as a worker that he continues to maintain himself as a physical subject, and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.
15 The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
16. Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
17. Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
18. Man makes religion, religion does not make a man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.
19.Machinery which is not used is not capital.
20. Political power, properly so-called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another
1. The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
2. Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren’t his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he’s lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself
3. Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
4. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people
5. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being
6. Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!
7. You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
8. Education is free. Freedom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
9. Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world of its proper value
10. Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
11. The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope
12. Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through
13. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form
14. The extremity of this bondage is that it is only as a worker that he continues to maintain himself as a physical subject, and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.
15 The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
16. Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
17. Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
18. Man makes religion, religion does not make a man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.
19.Machinery which is not used is not capital.
20. Political power, properly so-called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another
