"The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways;
the point is to change it."
-Karl Marx

"All our inventions have endowed
material forces with intellectual life, and
degraded human life into a material force."
-Karl Marx

"A commodity appears at first sight an
extremely obvious, trivial thing. But
its analysis brings out that it is a very
strange thing, abounding in metaphysical
subtleties and theological niceties."
-Karl Marx

"On a level plain, simple mounds
look like hills; and the insipid flatness
of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured
by the altitude of its 'great intellects'."
-Karl Marx

"Mankind always sets itself only
such tasks as it can solve; since,
looking at the matter more closely,
we will always find that the task
itself arises only when the material
conditions necessary for its solution
already exist or are at least
in the process of formation."
-Karl Marx

"From each, according to his ability;
to each, according to his need."
-Karl Marx

"Reason has always existed, but
not always in a reasonable form."
-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."
-Karl Marx

"The writer may very well serve
a movement of history as its mouthpiece,
but he cannot of course create it."
-Karl Marx

"Experience praises the most happy
the one who made the most people happy."
-Karl Marx