Marx, Karl

"The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself"

"Language is practical consciousness that exists for other people and therefore exists for me as well"

"The right to pursue one's own happiness is fundamental to human nature"

"Industry had created the world after its own image"

"The most violent element in society is ignorance"

"Distinguish always between what people profess and what they actually do"

"Capital accumulation presupposes surplus-value; surplus-value presupposes capitalistic production"

"The past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

"Self-realisation is possible only through the realisation of others"

"The most offensive book is the one you're forced to read in school"

"A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the cowboy movies or in the conduct of its leaders, is a society at war with itself"

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

"Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others"

"The value of a commodity is determined by the labor time necessary to produce it"

"All phenomena worthy of study must be studied in their development"

"The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot draw its poetry from the past but only from the future"

"Men are not free to choose their productive forces; every choice is based on previously existing productive forces"

"The first prerequisite for the liberation of women is the reintroduction of the entire female sex into public industry"

"The state is merely an executive committee of the ruling class"

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

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

"Man's consciousness changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence"

"The driving force of history is the conflict between productive forces and relations of production"

"Curiosity is a natural human attribute deserving of respect"

"The division of labour offers us the first example of how a man's own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him"

"The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God; it is by that we come to know ourselves"

"Empiricism is limited because it stops at the appearance of things"

"The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill gives you society with the industrial capitalist"

"Universal suffrage is reached, the workers will organize to secure the objects of their struggle"

"Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry"