The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. – Karl Marx
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. – Karl Marx
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – 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