Karl Marx Life Quotations

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.