Skip to content

Karl Marx Quotes

1818–1883 Germany

Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for labor theory of value, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought.

Germany
Academics
Communists
Economists
Historians

Also known as: Marx, Marx, Karl

Random Karl Marx quote

267 quotes

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Misattributed to Leo Tolstoy in Romance and Reality (1912)

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Misattributed

If we were to hang the last capitalist, another would appear to sell us the rope.

Misattributed

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Misattributed

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Disputed

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

Misattributed

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.

Misattributed

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Marx (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.