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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.