Religion is the opium of the masses. – 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
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. – Karl Marx
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. – Karl Marx
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness… Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour. – Richard Eyre