Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
KARL MARXMen 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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Moments are the elements of profit.
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In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
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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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Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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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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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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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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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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