Karl Marx

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

The worker has an interest in maintaining his existence as a worker, but not in maintaining his existence as a commodity.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

The capitalist system is full of contradictions, and it will eventually collapse.

The commodity is a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

The emancipation of the workers is the task of the workers themselves.

The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.

Machinery is designed for the purpose of saving labour, but it does not save the working class from the necessity of working.

The development of productive forces has reached a point where the existence of private property and the bourgeoisie are incompatible with further social development.

The transformation of money into capital is to be explained on the basis of the laws that regulate the exchange of commodities.

Legal relations, as well as forms of state, are to be grasped neither from themselves nor from the so-called general development of the human mind, but rather have their roots in the material conditions of life.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.

The advance of capitalist production develops a working class, which by education, tradition, and habit, looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).