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I am nothing and should be everything.

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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
Marx
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To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.
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The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.
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The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.
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Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence this essence dominates him and he worships it.
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Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange it is a product of the same.
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The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Moments are the elements of profit
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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
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Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
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Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.
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...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.
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