Class Quote by Karl Marx

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,…

— Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

— Karl Marx

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way…

— Rem Koolhaas

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

— Maxim Gorky

“As long as you allow your intellectual force to pour out into the absolute, it moves in eddies, its power is dissipated, it is…

— Jacques Rivière

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

— Karl Marx

“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of…

— Karl Marx

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest…

— Karl Marx

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the…

— Karl Marx

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital…

— Karl Marx

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

— Karl Marx

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

— Karl Marx