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.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Religion is the opiate of the people.