History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

“Religion is the Opiate of the Masses.”

“‎There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all life is too short to be anything but happy.”

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

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

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

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

“Question everything.”

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”

“I am nothing but I must be everything.”

“Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.”

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!”

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

“Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough...”

“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?”

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root. ”

“They don't know it, but they are doing it.”

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”

“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.”

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”

“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.”

“Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.”

“The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.”

“All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”

 “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”

“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”

“The way people get their living determines their social outlook.”

“Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.”

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”

“Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

 “Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice

“Die Religion...ist das Opium des Volkes”

“Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.”

“Moments are the elements of profit”

“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”

 “Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.”

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.”

“Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life”

 “Ser radical é tomar as coisas pela raiz. Mas, para o homem, a raiz é o próprio homem.”

“Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.

Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society.

But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.”

“Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.”

“If constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.”

“People make their own history, but not in conditions of their own making.”

It is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.”

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. 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.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

“Philosophy has only interpreted the world in a variety of ways. The point, however, is to change it.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles

Philosophers have tried to describe the world -- the point is to change it

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits

“Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo”

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

In its rational form [dialectic] is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension and affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up; because it regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence critical and revolutionary

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

Workers be unite can't loose anything but their chain

Since the mass of the employed living labour is continually on the decline as compared to the mass of materialised labour set in motion by it, i.e., to the productively consumed means of production, it follows that the portion of living labour, unpaid and congealed in surplus-value, must also be continually on the decrease compared to the amount of value represented by the invested total capital. Since the ratio of the mass of surplus-value to the value of the invested total capital forms the rate of profit, this rate must constantly fall

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.

Religion is opium for the people.

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

All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice

Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments,

and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully

developed. Whenever there is a general and extensive disturbance

of this mechanism, no matter what its cause, money becomes

suddenly and immediately transformed from its merely ideal shape

of money of account into hard cash. Profane commodities can no

longer replace it. The use-value of commodities becomes

valueless, and their value vanishes in the presence of its own

independent form. On the eve of the crisis, the bourgeois, with

the self-sufficiency that springs from intoxicating prosperity,

declares money to be a vain imagination. Commodities alone are

money. But now the cry is everywhere that money alone is a

commodity! As the hart pants after fresh water, so pants his soul

after money, the only wealth.

All working men of countries unite.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that we think a thing is ours only when we have it

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.”