Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.