You Can't Make Fried Eggs without Breaking Golden Eggs 9 January 2013, Cervera de los Montes A4 (29,7 x 21,0 cm) Water color, acrylic color, pencil, color pencil and felt-tip pen on paper i You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs is a proverb meaning that in order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that something should be destroyed. The quote is from Karl Marx, a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian and revolutionary socialist. The image is from Fried Eggs candy, in its version for the Arabic market, produced by the German company Trolli. Artist Pension Trust, London. Tags: Marx, egg, camdy, chicken, capital 231 / 779