The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. – Karl Marx
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. – Karl Marx
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. – Karl Marx