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Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

Karl Marx

Men 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.
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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.
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Care Children Education Institution Moments Mother State
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Camp Greatness Society Split
Communism begins where atheism begins.
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Atheist Beginning Community One Liner
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Happiness People Religion Requisite
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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Change Economics Human
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
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Chance Climb Gain Path Road Royal Science Summit
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Condition Heart Oppression People Religion Soul World
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Absence History Opposite Peace Social
The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Community Private Property Sentence Single Theory
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Money Universe Value
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Appearance Essence Science
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
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Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

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Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

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