Quote by Karl Marx
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthp

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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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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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. – Karl Marx

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Society
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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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Religion
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. – James Nasmyth

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