It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

As individuals express their life, so they are.

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Atheism” ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man. Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842

Nobody — not even “a musician of the future” — can live upon future products.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found his feet in the universe.

The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

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

Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.

In fact, the proposition that man’s species nature is estranged from him means that one man is estranged from the other, as each of them is from man’s essential nature.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

Hic Rhodus, hic salta! Here is the rose, here dance!

The forming of the five senses is a labour of the entire history of the world down to the present

The extremity of this bondage is that it is only as a worker that he continues to maintain himself as a physical subject, and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!

Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.