As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

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

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.