"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
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"The task is not just to understand the world but to change it."
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"History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce."
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"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being."
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"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."
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"A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism."
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"Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex."
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"Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough."
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"Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine."
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"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."
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"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."
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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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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
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"Religion is the opium of the masses."
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"The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races."
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"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
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"I am nothing but I must be everything."
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
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"In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off."
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"Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities."
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