Marx, Karl

"Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world"

"The expansion of needs is the expansion of human nature itself"

"Money is the universal commodity; it measures all value"

"Production by isolated individuals for their own wants is replaced by collective production"

"The chain of historical causation is not broken by individual will"

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear twice; once as tragedy, once as farce"

"The class struggle is the immediate motive force of history"

"By the time a man realizes his father was right, he has a son who knows he's wrong"

"Go back as far as you like, there is prior history and no final cause"

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

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in a single sentence: abolish private property"

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

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

"Consciousness is determined by life, not life by consciousness"

"The true is the whole; but the whole only becomes true through its development"

"Universal emancipation is only possible through universal labour"

"The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons"

"Talent is a matter of attention and practice, and very hard work"

"The extent of woman's rights is the extent of human rights"

"Anyone to whom the New Testament is known to be a human production is done with Christianity"

"Legal relations cannot be understood either from themselves or from the so-called general development of the human mind"

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established; it is the real movement"

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

"The need of a constantly expanding market chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe"

"Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love"

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history"

"The production of life, both of one's own labor and of fresh subjects, now appears as a double relationship"

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

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas"

"To be radical is to grasp things by the root"