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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.

Karl Marx

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.
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Expression Individual Life Man Nature Relationship
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
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Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
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Away Easy Heritage Nation
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 working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
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Class Labour One Liner Revolution Work
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Money Universe Value
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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Condition Demand Illusion Need
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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Compassion Excuse Terror
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
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Demand Happiness People Religion
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
Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Democracy One Liner Road Social
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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History Repeat Tragedy
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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Control History Past People
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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Change Interpret Philosophy Resistance World
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

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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