Karl Marx

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

"Free time is time available for the free development of individuals."

"The workers have nothing to lose but their chains."

"Property is theft."

"The true reward of our lives is the activities we have undertaken and completed."

"Industry and competition reconstruct the world."

"The theory is captured by the facts."

"Machinery is not evil, but only the capitalist use of it is."

"The development of civilization and industry has ever shown two distinct social groups."

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime."

"Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it."

"The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by weapons."

"Human beings are the only creatures that laugh and cry."

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient slave states."

"The more powerful the state, the more powerless will be the people."

"To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter."

"Nature does not produce on the one hand owners of capital and on the other hand workers."

"Every element of our character has been shaped by the labor we perform."

"The philosophers have merely interpreted the world; the task is to transform it."

"A radical is one who grasps things by the root."

"All social life is essentially practical."

"The realm of freedom begins only when labor determined by necessity ends."

"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."

"Capital can only come into being where the owner of the means of production and subsistence meets with the free worker."

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

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

"The point is to change the world."

"As long as money exists, you will always be a slave of money."

"The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with material activity."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."