The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers… Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world — on the one hand universal intercourse… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society8 is the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image