Karl Marx

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

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

“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”

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

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”

“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”

“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”

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

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”

“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”