Religion is the opium of the people
Author: Karl Marx
Ideology: Communism / Scientific Socialism
Property is theft
Author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Ideology: Anarchism / Utopian Socialism
The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles
Author: Karl Marx
Ideology: Communism
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
Author: George Santayana
Ideology: Nationalism / Historical Thought
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ideology: Liberalism
A people that oppresses another cannot be free
Author: Friedrich Engels
Ideology: Communism / Socialism
Workers of the world, unite!
Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Ideology: Communism
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
Author: Lord Acton
Ideology: Liberalism / Critique of Absolutism
That government is best which governs least
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Ideology: Liberalism
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Ideology: Conservatism
The nation is everything, the individual is nothing
Author: Benito Mussolini
Ideology: Fascism / Extreme Nationalism
The fatherland is the supreme value to which all others must be subordinated
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
Ideology: Nationalism
The family is the basic cell of society
Author: John Paul II
Ideology: Conservatism
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else
Author: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
Ideology: Liberalism
War is merely the continuation of policy by other means
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Ideology: Nationalism / Militarism
I am the state
Author: Louis XIV of France
Ideology: Absolutism / Monarchical Conservatism
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
Author: Karl Marx
Ideology: Communism
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Ideology: Individualism / Philosophical Liberalism