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In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.

Karl Marx

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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Beyond Change Difference Quantity
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
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Carry Social Strength Strong Weakness
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
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
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
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Consicious Freedom Necessary
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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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
Communism begins where atheism begins.
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Atheist Beginning Community One Liner
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Mass One Liner Opium Religion
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
Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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Believe Cap Ears Eyes Magic Monster
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
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
Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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Ability According Community Inspirational Need Politics
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

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