It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.