The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. |
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. |
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. |
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. |
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. |
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it |
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it |
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia] |
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. |
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. |
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. |
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. |
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille |
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property |
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. |