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• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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  Work, Philosophical, Technology

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

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  Self, People, Matter

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• The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

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  Christian, Dream, Men

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• ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

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  Communication, Order, Political

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.40, Booklassic

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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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  Strong, Weakness, Reform

  Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”

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• Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

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  Money, Play, Courses

  "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, February 21, 1848.

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• Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

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  Economic, Humans, Human Beings

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

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  Weed, Atheist, Fear

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• The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

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  Men, Doe, Want

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• We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

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  Play, Done, Development

  Karl Marx (1973). “The Karl Marx Library: On the First International”

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• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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  Atheist, Mind, Deals

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• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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  Philosophical, World, Bureaucrats

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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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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  Frustrated, Arms, Revolutionary

  Karl Marx (1973). “Political writings”

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• This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

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  Kindness, Overwhelmed, Young

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• Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

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  Crush, Individual, Abstract

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1888). “Free Trade: A Speech Delivered Before the Democratic Club, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 9, 1848. With Extract from La Misère de la Philosophie”

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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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  People, Stupidity, Misery

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• The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

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  Slavery, States, Existence

  Karl Marx (2012). “Selected Essays”, p.75, The Floating Press

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• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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  Religious, Atheist, Heart

  Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.131, CUP Archive

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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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  Strong, Army, Government

  David McLellan, Karl Marx (1972). “The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction”

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• The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.

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  Unity, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat

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• I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

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  Wish, Atheism

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• A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.

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  People, Heritage

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• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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  Philosophical, Poverty, Rich

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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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  Book, Thinking, Dust

  Karl Marx (1967). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1884”

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• The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

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  Tasks, World

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