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Karl Marx

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“Religion is the opium of the masses.”— Karl Marx
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“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”— Karl Marx
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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”— Karl Marx
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“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”— Karl Marx
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“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”— Karl Marx
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“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”— Karl Marx
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“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”— Karl Marx
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“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”— Karl Marx
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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”— Karl Marx
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“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”— Karl Marx
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“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.”— Karl Marx
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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”— Karl Marx
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“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”— Karl Marx
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“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”— Karl Marx
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“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”— Karl Marx
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“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”— Karl Marx
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“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”— Karl Marx
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“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”— Karl Marx
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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”— Karl Marx
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“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”— Karl Marx
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“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.”— Karl Marx
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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”— Karl Marx
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“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”— Karl Marx
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“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”— Karl Marx
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“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”— Karl Marx