Quotes

“My friends, there are no friends.” Coco Chanel

“Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.” Coco Chanel

“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.” Coco Chanel

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” Coco Chanel

“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!” Coco Chanel

“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.” Coco Chanel

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” Coco Chanel

“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.” Coco Chanel

“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.” Coco Chanel

“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.” Coco Chanel

“I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.” Coco Chanel

“Democracy is the road to socialism.” Karl Marx

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Karl Marx

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Karl Marx

“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” Karl Marx

“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” Karl Marx

“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl Marx

“Religion is the opium of the masses.” Karl Marx

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!” Karl Marx

“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.” Karl Marx

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

“For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.” Karl Marx

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.” Karl Marx

“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.” Karl Marx

“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.” Karl Marx

“Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.” Karl Marx

“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.” Karl Marx

“The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.” Karl Marx

“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.” Karl Marx

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity” Karl Marx