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 MARXTaxes 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.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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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 road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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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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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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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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To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
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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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Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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