Quote

You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.

Karl Marx

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
Marx
Society
Prepare
War
Wars
Political
Civil
Also
Communication
Change
National
Power
Exercise
Years
Struggle
Bring
Struggles

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
Karl Marx
Image
A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.
Karl Marx
Image
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
Karl Marx
Image
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party
Karl Marx
Image
Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production
Karl Marx
Image
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Karl Marx
Image
To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.
Karl Marx
Image
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
Karl Marx
Image
Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
Karl Marx
Image
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
Karl Marx
Image
In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
Karl Marx
Image
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx
Image
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
Image
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
Karl Marx
Image
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
Image
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.
Karl Marx
Image
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
Karl Marx
Image
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.
Karl Marx
Image
Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.
Karl Marx
Image
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
Karl Marx