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)

History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.