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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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

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx

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

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