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Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.


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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.



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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.



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There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery



When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.



Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.



Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole



Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.



Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.



The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.





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