The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx
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. – Karl Marx
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. – Karl Marx
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him…. He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by