Marx, Karl

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

"Religion is the opium of the people."

"All that is solid melts into air."

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

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

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

"The working men have no country."

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

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

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

"Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself."

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal beverage of humanity."

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

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

"Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes."

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

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

"In a certain sense, a man is a product of the time in which he lives."

"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."

"The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life processes."

"Labor in the white skin can never be free so long as labor in the black skin is branded."

"The workers have a world to win and only their chains to lose."

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

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

"Money is a universal commodity."

"Ideas that have once had influence on the history of mankind rarely pass away completely."

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgets to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

"The more of his money man has the less of his soul he will have."

"The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look or taste, are faith."

"Production by capitalists of for profit is their motive."