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 MARXIgnorance never yet helped anybody.
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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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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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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Communism begins where atheism begins.
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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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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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
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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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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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