Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole
Karl MarxHistory does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl MarxThe leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
Karl MarxIn the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
Karl MarxThe animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.
Karl Marx