It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl MarxIf one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
Karl MarxIn the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
Karl MarxSociety is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.
Karl Marx