The Wisdom of Karl Marx: 10 Quotes That Will Make You Think

 KARL MARX ( 1818 - 1883 )

• "For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."

• "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

• "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

• "The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."

• "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."

• "The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

• "One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm."

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

• "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness."

• "Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."