The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
KARL MARXMan 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.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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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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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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Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
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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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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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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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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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