Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. – Karl Marx
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. – 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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx