German philosopher who advocated "merciless criticism of everything
existing" and was the co-originator of the theories of "Communism." Along with his
life-long friend and associate Frederick Engels. Marx and Engels were both active in various
revolutionary groups and together worked out the theory and tactics of "Revolutionary Proletarian
Socialism" or "Communism."
Marx was a central figure in the new organization, and author of its first statement, and a host
of resolutions, declarations and manifestos. Marx's most important work, "Das Kapital," was published in 1867.
Ultimately ill-health prevented him from completing two other volumes.
(1818 - 1883)
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
~ Karl Marx
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
~ Karl Marx
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
~ Karl Marx
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
~ Karl Marx
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
~ Karl Marx
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
~ Karl Marx
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal,
but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
~ Karl Marx
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
~ Karl Marx
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
~ Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully
left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
~ Karl Marx
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically
different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
~ Karl Marx
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
~ Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
~ Karl Marx
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the
ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
~ Karl Marx
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
~ Karl Marx
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
~ Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose
but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
~ Karl Marx
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
~ Karl Marx
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
~ Karl Marx
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
~ Karl Marx
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
~ Karl Marx
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
~ Karl Marx
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
~ Karl Marx
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
~ Karl Marx
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
~ Karl Marx
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
~ Karl Marx
Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science.
Nietzsche challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality.
He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism.
(1844-1900)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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