The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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Page G-687 - For the moment it is sufficient to say that what is believed to be essential for mental health is that the infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate and continuous relationship with his mother (or permanent mother-substitute) in which both find satisfaction and enjoyment. Appears in 230 books from 1930-2008

Page G-389 - The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. Appears in 775 books from 1900-2008

Page G-388 - great men,' most Americans might well say of their elite: They are all that we are not.'1 "-The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences. Appears in 79 books from 1907-2007

Page G-506 - But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations. Appears in 368 books from 1901-2008

Page G-506 - The specific economic form, in which unpaid surplus-labour is pumped out of direct producers, determines the relationship of rulers and ruled, as it grows directly out of production itself and, in turn, reacts upon it as a determining element. Appears in 97 books from 1957-2007

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