Karl Marx

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.