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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

Human

Animal

Society

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" Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. "

" Democracy is the road to socialism. "

" The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. "

" History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. "

" Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. "

" Religion is the opium of the masses. "

" History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. "

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History Repeats Itself

History

Tragedy

" If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. "

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Certain

Anything

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. "

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

" For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. "

" 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. "

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

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Revolutions

History

" The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. "

" Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. "

" There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. "

" While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. "

" The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. "

" Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. "

" 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. "

" Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. "

" Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. "

" 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. "

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Simple

Great

" The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. "

" 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. "