Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. – 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, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. – Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. – Karl Marx
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. – Karl Marx