Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Quote by Karl Marx

Topics: History Quotes

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose...

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose...

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

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

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does...

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does...

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather...

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather...

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

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

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

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

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within...

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within...

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to...

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

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

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

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois...

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois...

Religion is the opium of the masses

Religion is the opium of the masses

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the...

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the...

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

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

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the...

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a...