It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

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

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

(Marx, 1963)