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Quote by Karl Marx
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas,

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. – Karl Marx

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. – Karl Marx

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. – Karl Marx

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