Marx, Karl

"They have nothing to lose but their chains."

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

"Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life."

"The true criticism of existing conditions will be obtained only after a correct understanding of the theory."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Even defective knowledge is still knowledge."

"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."

"Competition has killed the mother love in man."

"The individual is nothing but a particular expression of the general."

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"The more a man has, the more he is enslaved by necessity."

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

"The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing."

"Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets."

"Do not say that man is a product of circumstance. Men make circumstances."

"The process of production is at an end when the product is produced."

"The only way forward is through conflict and revolution."

"Consciousness does not determine life; life determines consciousness."

"A being only considers himself independent when he stands on his own feet."

"The practical application of knowledge is the ultimate measure of truth."

"Technology is a tool, but whoever controls technology controls the future."

"In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

"The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them."

"As long as supply and demand are the only rule of production, there can be no freedom."

"No one can be free unless he is free from the pressure of necessity."

"The contradiction between the forces of production and relations of production creates the dynamic of history."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"A revolution is necessary, not because it is impossible to live without it, but because it is the only honorable solution."

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