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.

Karl Marx

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Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

laughing people needs

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

agony ignorance opposites

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled. by Karl Marx

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

controlled people

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. by Karl Marx

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

capitalism life-is america

Follow your own path, no matter what people say. by Karl Marx

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

self matter people

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn t... by Karl Marx

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

thinker suffering thinking

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

humorous business motivational

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can b... by Karl Marx

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

liberty cutting people

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

rotten misery wealth

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his ne... by Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

philosophical political inspirational

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your cha... by Karl Marx

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

communist-manifesto uniting world

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope... by Karl Marx

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

rope poverty lasts

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

technology house class

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

reform weakness strong

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry by Karl Marx

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

doe want men

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.

atheist religious heart

The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of t... by Karl Marx

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

proletariat bourgeoisie unity

The production of too many useful things results in too many usel... by Karl Marx

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

philosophical technology work

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races. by Karl Marx

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

jew poland race

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish... by Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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