“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
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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.
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.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.