Karl Marx Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.”

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”

“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”

“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”

“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”

“A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.”

“The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.”

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”