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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 Marx

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
KARL MARX

Chain Labour Lose United Work World
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
KARL MARX

Devil Especially Movement Peace
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
KARL MARX

Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
KARL MARX

Deep Hungry Man Understand Want
In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
KARL MARX

Decay History Laboratory Life Nature One Liner
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
KARL MARX

Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
KARL MARX

Away Easy Heritage Nation
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
KARL MARX

Consist Express Individual Relationship Society
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX

Age Class Ideas Rule
I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
KARL MARX

Against Atheist God Myself Rule
I am nothing but I must be everything.
KARL MARX

Deep Inspirational Minimalism One Liner
Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
KARL MARX

Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
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 MARX

Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
KARL MARX

Human Mind Occurance Religion Understand
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
KARL MARX

Change Economics Human
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
KARL MARX

Appearance Essence Science

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