Quote

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

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
Ruling
Executives
Class
State
States
Committee
Committees
Executive

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.
Karl Marx
Image
I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
Karl Marx
Image
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
Karl Marx
Image
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Karl Marx
Image
The worker puts his life into the object but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
Karl Marx
Image
I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.
Karl Marx
Image
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
Karl Marx
Image
It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
Karl Marx
Image
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
Image
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
Karl Marx
Image
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
Karl Marx
Image
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong but always by the strength of the weak.
Karl Marx
Image
All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
Image
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
Image
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
Karl Marx
Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.
Karl Marx
Image
One capitalist always kills many.
Karl Marx
Image
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
Karl Marx
Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
Image
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx