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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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No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

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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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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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

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Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

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Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

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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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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

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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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The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding genera...more

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Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe....more