Marx, Karl

"Kindness toward the oppressor is cruelty toward the oppressed."

"The strength of the movement lies in the unity of the workers."

"Fear of change is the strongest weapon of the status quo."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will."

"Health is a precondition for meaningful work and human dignity."

"Adventure in thought precedes adventure in action."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"Gratitude to those who came before us motivates us to act for those who come after."

"True creativity emerges when people are freed from material want."

"Perseverance in the face of oppression is the mark of the truly human."

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

"Religion is the opium of the people"

"Workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains"

"The more the capitalist has, the more he wants"

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

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

"The task is not just to interpret reality but to change it"

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient slave-owning societies"

"Man makes religion; religion does not make man"

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

"It is not consciousness that determines being, but social being that determines consciousness"

"All that is solid melts into air"

"The people's revolution requires the transformation of the old state machine"

"Art is the expression of society's highest ideals and struggles"

"Nature is not something separate from humanity; we are part of nature"

"The first condition for the liberation of the working class is the abolition of classes"

"Accumulation of capital is concentration of power in few hands"

"The bourgeoisie have created a world after their own image"

"A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism"

"The worker has no country; we cannot take from him what he does not have"