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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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Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
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Karl Heinrich Marx
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As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .
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History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.
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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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In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
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Music is the mirror of reality.
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Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.
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We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
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Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole
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Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.
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In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.
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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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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
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Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
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The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
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