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Quote by Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if i

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. – Karl Marx

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. – Karl Marx

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[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. – Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. – Anita Roddick

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