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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

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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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The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism
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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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All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.
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It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
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Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
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All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
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Man makes religion, religion does not make man
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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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There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
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Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .
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Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
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