black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Karl Marx

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX

Consicious Freedom Necessary
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
KARL MARX

History Repeat Tragedy
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
KARL MARX

Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
KARL MARX

Business Humour People Production Result Technology
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX

Communication Country Haunt Spectacular
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARX

History Locomotive One Liner Revolution
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
KARL MARX

Criticism Foundation Man Religion
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
KARL MARX

Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
KARL MARX

Business Catch Fish Motivational Opportunity Ruin Teaching Wonderful
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARX

Community History Riddle Solution
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
KARL MARX

Money Universe Value
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
KARL MARX

Chance Climb Gain Path Road Royal Science Summit
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
KARL MARX

Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
KARL MARX

Consist Express Individual Relationship Society
Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
KARL MARX

Away Easy Heritage Nation
I am nothing but I must be everything.
KARL MARX

Deep Inspirational Minimalism One Liner

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Karl Marx Quotes