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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
KARL MARX

Change Interpret Philosophy Resistance World
The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
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Deep Hungry Man Understand Want
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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Female Measure Position Progress Sex Social
Man 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.
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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.
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Creature Feature Kidness Lady Life Overwhelmed Ugly Young
My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
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Capital Destroy God Life Objective
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
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Criticism Foundation Man Religion
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Devil Especially Movement Peace
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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History Repeat Tragedy
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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Camp Greatness Society Split
The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life – the greater is the store of your estranged being.
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Express Greatness Life Minimalism Store
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.
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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Class Existence History Society Struggle
In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.
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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.
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Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
KARL MARX

Himself Man Matter Radical Root

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