Quote by Karl Marx
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas,

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

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We should not say that one mans hour is worth another mans hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most times carcass. – Karl Marx

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. – Karl Marx

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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. – Karl Marx

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