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" Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. "

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" The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. "

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

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History Repeats Itself

" 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. "

" The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. "

" 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. "

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" Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! "

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

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

" Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. "

" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "

" 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. "

" Religion is the opium of the masses. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "