A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
KARL MARXA people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
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.
KARL MARXCommunism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.
KARL MARXThere is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARXThe philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
KARL MARXThe abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
KARL MARXMan 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.
KARL MARXFollow your own path, no matter what people say.
KARL MARXThe 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.
KARL MARXEducation is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.
KARL MARXThe theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
KARL MARXCommunism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
KARL MARXI am a machine condemned to devour books.
KARL MARXA commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
KARL MARXThe tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
KARL MARXKeep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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