Karl Marx

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren’t his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he’s lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.

Karl Marx

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Karl Marx

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

Karl Marx

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Karl Marx

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

Karl Marx

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Karl Marx

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

Karl Marx

Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.

Karl Marx

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Karl Marx