I am a machine condemned to devour books. ― Karl Marx

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. ― Karl Marx

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Democracy is the road to socialism.

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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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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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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. ― Karl Marx

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

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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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We forge the chains we wear in life._ Charles Dickens

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

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