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. The Holy Family , Ch. VI (1845).”

“The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia. Marx”

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge”

“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair”

“And your education ! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.”

“The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. As quoted in the Communist Manifesto (1848) p. 7”

“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. As quoted in The Communist Manifesto (1848), p.2”

“Les Cahiers d'études de Karl Marx (1840”

“With disdain I will throw my gauntlet”

“Thus heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God , is chosen for hell . “The Pale Maiden” (1837) ballad”