Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

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

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

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.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.