Karl Marx — "History is thorough and goes through many phases when carrying an old form to th…"

"Machinery is designed for the purpose of saving labour, but it does not save the working class from the necessity of working."

"The production of commodities is a social process, and the relations between producers are not directly social, but appear as relations between things."

"The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air."

"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 tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."