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 MARXThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
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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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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 criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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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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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
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Moments are the elements of profit.
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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.
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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
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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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Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.
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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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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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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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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
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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 history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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