Karl Marx

"If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded."

- Karl Marx

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

- Karl Marx

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

- Karl Marx

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

- Karl Marx

"Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases."

- Karl Marx

"There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits."

- 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