Quote by Karl Marx
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. - Karl

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx

Other quotes by Karl Marx

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. – Karl Marx

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Industry
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Karl Marx
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. – Karl Marx

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Society
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Karl Marx
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx

Category:
Election Day
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Karl Marx
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Other Quotes from
History
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History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. – Dexter Perkins

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History

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. – John Acton

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History

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams

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History

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. – Henry David Thoreau

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History

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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Education

Never give in… never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force… never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. – Winston Churchill

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Hang in There

If I cant get the girl, at least give me more money. – Alan Alda

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Money

Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind…. – Thomas Buchanan Read