Marx, Karl

"Men are not free to choose their productive forces, as every productive force is an acquired force."

"The private property owner has already recognized his power over individuals."

"To study this subject properly one must become familiar with every aspect of English life."

"The growth of cities constitutes the best measure of economic growth."

"The bourgeoisie cannot continue to exist without constantly advancing productive forces."

"Human activity must be understood as history, not as abstract nature."

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

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

"The worker of the world has nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win."

"Capital has already become to some extent independent, possessing individual life."

"Every individual is obliged to contribute to the common good according to ability and means."

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

"Industry is the actual, historical relation of nature to man."

"Despotism tempers itself with ceremony; absolute power requires absolute politeness."

"An idea can be no more immortal than its bearer."

"The wealthy find themselves forced to become more bourgeois than bourgeois themselves."

"The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces."

"True democracy can only exist where the working class rules."

"The real tragedy is that the poor do not comprehend their power."

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

"The German ideology can only teach a language of suffering."

"Modern bourgeois society is like a sorcerer unable to control the powers he has called up."

"Feudalism was replaced by capitalism; capitalism will be replaced by socialism."

"The simplification of industrial processes requires the simplification of the human being."

"Language is practical consciousness that exists also for other men."

"The accumulation of capital is itself an expression of social production."

"Education alone does not transform society; only revolutionary action can."

"In the feudal era, family relations were based on economic relations; the same is true today."

"The interest of the working class lies in the destruction of all class rule."

"Every new development in productive forces creates new divisions in society."