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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.
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The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.
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Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.
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The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
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Man makes religion, religion does not make man
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Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong but always by the strength of the weak.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.
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The worker puts his life into the object but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
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Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
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