"When the train of history hits a..." - Quote by Karl Marx

“It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.”

“All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.”

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

“Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.”

“Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money.”

“The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.”

“Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.”

“The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.”

“It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”