Marx, Karl

"Money is crystallized social relations."

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

"You must make the contradiction between life and labour so patent to all, that all the blind will see it."

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

"Consciousness is determined by conditions of life, not the reverse."

"The only thing that moves the world is ideas."

"Art is the human activity most opposed to the machine."

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

"The essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual; it is the totality of social relations."

"Freedom is a product of the material conditions of society."

"Change begins with a single person willing to act."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"Reason is the subversive force that must destroy the despotism of custom."

"The market knows no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest."

"Production is always aimed at social needs, not individual wants."

"Truth has always been violent and revolutionary."

"The education of all children from the moment they can get along without a mother's care is state duty."

"Universal enlightenment is the condition of genuine freedom."

"Abundance of material goods does not guarantee abundance of spirit."

"The proletariat has nothing to lose but their chains."

"Every form of society has been just as necessary as every natural species."

"Mankind must strike the iron whilst it is hot."

"The wealth of nations is measured by the exploitation of workers."

"Without revolutionary change, society stagnates."

"The division of labor is a source of both progress and oppression."

"Ideas that appeal to the imagination are more powerful than ideas based on reason alone."

"A person is nothing without the society that shapes them."

"The most ruthless revolutionary is he who best understands the contradictions of his time."

"Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex."