The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world. - Karl Marx
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. - Karl Marx
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it - when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., - in short, when it is used by us. Although private property itself again conceives all these direct realizations of possession as means of life, and the life which they serve as means is the life of private property - labour and conversion into capital. In place of all these physical and mental senses there has therefore come the sheer estrangement of all these senses – the sense of having. The human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order that he might yield his inner wealth to the outer world. - Karl Marx
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. - Karl Marx
Neither of us cares a straw for popularity. When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes. - Karl Marx
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. - Karl Marx
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
Communism is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution. - Karl Marx
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. - Karl Marx
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. - Karl Marx
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoleon Bonaparte
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. - Napoleon Bonaparte
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. - Napoleon Bonaparte