Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.