philosophy Quotes

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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

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

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.