Karl Marx

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

"Workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."

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

"Religion is the opium of the people."

"Capital is dead labour that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour."

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

"The more the worker produces, the less he has to consume."

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism."

"Man makes himself through labour."

"Freedom is so precious that it must be carefully rationed."

"The writer must earn money in order to live and write, but he must not live and write in order to make money."

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps."

"The consciousness of men does not determine their being; on the contrary, their social being determines their consciousness."

"Sell a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."

"All that is solid melts into air."

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

"Money is the universal commodity."

"Labour in the white skin can never free itself as long as labour in the black skin is branded."

"The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations."

"The real tragedy is when the laborer sees no further than his immediate circumstances."

"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save."

"Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another."

"The more of his life a man attributes to labour, the less he attributes to himself."

"Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve."

"The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests."

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

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

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."