The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
KARL MARXMen 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.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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I am nothing but I must be everything.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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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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We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
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Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.
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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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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
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