“ It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. Karl Marx
“ The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive pow… Karl Marx
“ Remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Karl Marx
“ Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck. Karl Marx
“ History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. Karl Marx
“ Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself. Karl Marx
“ To say that the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital, means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fal… Karl Marx
“ The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx
“ Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence. Karl Marx
“ The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl Marx
“ Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Karl Marx
“ The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. Karl Marx
“ The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx
“ Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fai… Karl Marx
