Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
KARL MARXThe ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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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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When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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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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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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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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Your favourite virtue – Simplicity.
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
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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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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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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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