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It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been w...more

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Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right...more

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History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

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Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be me...more

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Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstanc...more

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Moments are the elements of profit

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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

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The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himse...more

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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

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...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete...more

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster a...more

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Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of product...more