"Every provisional political set-up following a revolution..." - Quote by Karl Marx

“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.”

“The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.”

“Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.”

“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”

“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”

“Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.”

“Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.”

“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”

“I always read the papers, the political bits.”