Karl Marx

"The German ideology consists precisely in thinking that big industry will be ushered in by means of philosophy."

"A society without religion is possible."

"Quality is not an accident; it is a habit."

"Demand that which is right, even if you think it impossible."

"The way many people talk about balance, it is as if to be middle of the ground on every issue is a palliative."

"You must make a choice: to take up the cross or to lay it at the feet of others."

"Step by step. I can't worry about everything at once."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: abolish all private property."

"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not mind of fatiguing themselves have a chance of gaining its luminous heights."

"Art is the most beautiful deception of all."

"Critique must hence again take up the cross."

"The more the division of labour develops, the more does labour become modified."

"The philosophers would only interpret the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

"Without contradictions there is no progress."

"Society can be freed from the bonds of interest only by the conscious action of the working class."

"The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production."

"The more powerful the state, the more will it be hated by those who are powerless."

"The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise."

"Men make their own history, but not of their own free will."

"The growth of wealth, if not restricted by political measures, is self-annihilating."

"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."

"The cure for the abuse of democracy is more democracy."

"Every diminution of the predisposing causes to crime must be considered as a proportional diminution of crime itself."

"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production."

"Industry has set the stage for its own supersession."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"What we have to fear is not the wrath of the working class, but their patience."

"My analytical results have cost me 25 years of study."