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title: "Best Karl Marx Quotations"
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> [ They \[the New World Order\] want to reduce the population \[to 500 million\] and their target date is May 5th of 2000.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kent-hovind/they-the-new-world-order-want-to-reduce-the-population-to-500-million/)

[Kent Hovind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kent-hovind/)

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> [“Marxism is not necessarily what Karl Marx wrote in Das Kapital, but whatever it is that all the warring sects believe, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lippmann/marxism-is-not-necessarily-what-karl-marx-wrote-in-das-kapital-but/)

[Walter Lippmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lippmann/)

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> [“London’s most famous burial ground, Highgate Cemetery, is renowned for its many famous permanent residents—such as Karl Marx and George Eliot—and for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-river-editors/london-s-most-famous-burial-ground-highgate-cemetery-is-renowned-for/)

[Charles River Editors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-river-editors/)

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> [“The more we learn of behavioral psychology, the more we understand that ideologies are as much a product of people’s nature as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-hannan/the-more-we-learn-of-behavioral-psychology-the-more-we-understand/)

[Daniel Hannan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-hannan/)

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> [“Karl Marx’s early (1844) essay On the Jewish Question is a fascinating example of an intellectual form of Jewish self-hatred. He argues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-solomon/karl-marx-s-early-1844-essay-on-the-jewish-question-is-a-fascinating/)

Norman Solomon

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> [“The things they have done to us! The truths they have turned into lies! The ideals they have fouled and made vile.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/the-things-they-have-done-to-us-the-truths-they-have-turned-into-lies/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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> [From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/from-the-days-of-spartacus-weishophf-karl-marx-trotski-belacoon-rosa/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [“The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the establishment of "free education for all children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-taft-benson/the-tenth-plank-in-karl-marx-s-manifesto-for-destroying-our-kind-of/)

[Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-taft-benson/)

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> [“What's a colony without its dusky natives? Where's the fun if they're all going to die off? Just a big chunk of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/what-s-a-colony-without-its-dusky-natives-where-s-the-fun-if-they-re/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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> [“Such risk aversion breeds its own failure. So deeply rooted is gentrification that Richard Florida has now modified his widely acclaimed thesis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-luce/such-risk-aversion-breeds-its-own-failure-so-deeply-rooted-is/)

[Edward Luce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-luce/)

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> [“It’s quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-quite-a-task-to-combat-the-absolutists-and-the-relativists-at/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-m-friedman/ideas-about-the-scope-and-meaning-of-freedom-of-speech-do-expand-and/)

Lawrence M. Friedman

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> [“In his early text, somewhat cumbersomely titled 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT,' the young Karl Marx famously noted that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miroslav-volf/in-his-early-text-somewhat-cumbersomely-titled-towards-a-critique-of/)

[Miroslav Volf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miroslav-volf/)

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> [“Obama’s claims about teachers and CEOs gets to a broader puzzle about how a capitalist society assigns rewards. At first glance, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/obama-s-claims-about-teachers-and-ceos-gets-to-a-broader-puzzle-about/)

[Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/)

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> [It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/it-is-absurd-for-anyone-to-think-that-soviet-marxism-is-a-correct/)

[Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/)

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> [“He married and made a home. He went endlessly from house to house and spoke the mission and the truth. The hopeless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/he-married-and-made-a-home-he-went-endlessly-from-house-to-house-and/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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> [“The obvious differences apart, Karl Marx was no more a reliable prophet than was the Reverend Jim Jones. Karl Marx was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-f-buckley-jr/the-obvious-differences-apart-karl-marx-was-no-more-a-reliable/)

[William F. Buckley, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-f-buckley-jr/)

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> [“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-bray-pipher/religions-are-metaphorical-systems-that-give-us-bigger-containers-in/)

[Mary Bray Pipher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-bray-pipher/)

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> [“Someday I will stop being young and wanting stupid tattoos. There are 7 people in my house. We each have different genders.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clementine-von-radics/someday-i-will-stop-being-young-and-wanting-stupid-tattoos-there-are/)

[Clementine von Radics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clementine-von-radics/)

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> [“the so-called radical Negroes who have read and misunderstood Karl Marx and his disciples and would solve the political as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-g-woodson/the-so-called-radical-negroes-who-have-read-and-misunderstood-karl/)

[Carter G. Woodson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-g-woodson/)

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> [“Welch became more confident that the press was reporting his words more accurately, but that worked against him because his discourses on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-h-miller/welch-became-more-confident-that-the-press-was-reporting-his-words/)

Edward H. Miller

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> [“When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could blame the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/when-a-man-died-there-had-to-be-blame-jimmy-cross-understood-this-you/)

[Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/)

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> [I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-buffett/i-won-t-close-down-a-business-of-subnormal-profitability-merely-to/)

[Warren Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-buffett/)

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> [“Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/jesus-said-if-the-flesh-has-come-into-existence-because-of-the-spirit/)

[Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/)

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> [“Meanwhile, the government of the United States was behaving almost exactly as Karl Marx described a capitalist state: pretending neutrality to maintain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/meanwhile-the-government-of-the-united-states-was-behaving-almost/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irwin-shaw/the-world-said-pavone-will-swing-to-the-left-the-whole-world-except/)

[Irwin Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irwin-shaw/)

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> [Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-traficant/mr-speaker-in-1848-karl-marx-said-a-progressive-income-tax-is-needed/)

[James Traficant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-traficant/)

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> [“In 1925, a master plan was instituted to blend the French neo-classical design with the tropical background. The Art Deco movement, both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba/in-1925-a-master-plan-was-instituted-to-blend-the-french-neo/)

[Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba/)

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> [“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/contrary-to-the-preaching-of-dour-labourists-there-is-nothing/)

[Guy Standing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-standing/)

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> [“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-antonio-rivera/the-class-struggle-had-a-just-motive-and-socialism-at-the-beginning/)

José Antonio Rivera

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> [What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-garton-ash/what-is-the-elephant-in-all-our-rooms-it-is-the-global-triumph-of/)

[Timothy Garton Ash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-garton-ash/)

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> [“That's not what justice is," the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. "That's what Karl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-heller/that-s-not-what-justice-is-the-colonel-jeered-and-began-pounding-the/)

[Joseph Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-heller/)

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> [Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/karl-marx-said-the-task-is-not-just-to-understand-the-world-but-to/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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                        "text": "They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000. […] The demons who call themselves spirit guides have told them. \"You know, you have to reduce the population by May 5th.\" Because May 5th is Karl Marx's birthday, you know, enter the Age of Aquarius. […] I suspect they may use Y2K as an excuse to create some little problems here, we shall have to wait and see.",
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                        "text": "“Karl Marx’s early (1844) essay On the Jewish Question is a fascinating example of an intellectual form of Jewish self-hatred. He argues that Judaism is neither religion nor people-hood but the desire for gain; totally ignoring the vast Jewish proletariat of Central and Eastern Europe, he equates Jews, and the Christians whose religion derives from them, with the ‘enemy’ – namely, bourgeois capitalism. Clearly, he is fleeing his own Jewish identity (he was baptized at the age of 6, but was descended from rabbis on both sides of the family), ‘assimilating’ to the cultural milieu of the anti-Semitic Feuerbach, whose perverse definition of Judaism he has adopted, and finding refuge from Jewish particularism in socialist universalism.”",
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                        "text": "“The things they have done to us! The truths they have turned into lies! The ideals they have fouled and made vile. Take Jesus. He was one of us. He knew. When He said that it is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God—He damn well meant just what He said. But look at what the church has done to Jesus in the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word he spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if He was living today. Jesus would be one who really knows. Me and Jesus would sit across the table and I would look at Him and He would look at me and we would both know that the other knew. Me and Jesus and Karl Marx could all sit at a table and -”",
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                        "text": "From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.",
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                        "text": "“The tenth plank in Karl Marx's Manifesto for destroying our kind of civilization advocated the establishment of \"free education for all children in public schools.\" There were several reasons why Marx wanted government to run the schools.…one of them [was that] ‘It is capable of exact demonstration that if every party in the State has the right of excluding from public schools whatever he does not believe to be true, then he that believes most must give way to him that believes least, and then he that believes least must give way to him that believes absolutely nothing, no matter in how small a minority the atheists or agnostics may be.’ It is self-evident that on this scheme, if it is consistently and persistently carried out in all parts of the country, the United States system of national popular education will be the most efficient and widespread instrument for the propagation of atheism which the world has ever seen.”",
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                        "text": "“What's a colony without its dusky natives? Where's the fun if they're all going to die off? Just a big chunk of desert, no more maids, no field-hands, no laborers for the construction or the mining--wait, wait a minute there, yes it's Karl Marx, that sly old racist skipping away with his teeth together and his eyebrows up trying to make believe it's nothing but Cheap Labor and Overseas Markets... Oh, no. Colonies are much, much more. Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. Where he can fall on his slender prey roaring as loud as he feels like, and guzzle her blood with open joy. Eh? Where he can just wallow and rut and let himself go in a softness, a receptive darkness of limbs, of hair as woolly as the hair on his own forbidden genitals. Where the poppy, and the cannabis and coca grow full and green, and not to the colors and style of death, as do ergot and agaric, the blight and fungus native to Europe. Christian Europe was always death, Karl, death and repression. Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts...\tNo word ever gets back. The silences down here are vast enough to absorb all behavior, no matter how dirty, how animal it gets…”",
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                        "text": "“Such risk aversion breeds its own failure. So deeply rooted is gentrification that Richard Florida has now modified his widely acclaimed thesis about the rise of the creative classes. Cities are becoming too successful for their own good. Until recently, he believed they would be the engine rooms of the new economy, embracing the diversity necessary to attract talent. That has certainly happened. Gay pride parades seem to get larger every year. A thousand multicultural flowers are blooming. Yet in squeezing out income diversity, the new urban economies are also shutting off the scope for serendipity. The West’s global cities are like tropical islands surrounded by oceans of resentment. Florida’s latest book is called The New Urban Crisis. Rather than being shaped by those who live there full-time, the characters of our biggest cities are increasingly driven by the global super-rich as a place to park their money. Many of the creative classes are being edged out. Urban downtowns have turned into ‘deadened trophy districts’. New York’s once-bohemian SoHo is now better known for its high-end boutiques than its artists’ studios. SoHo could nowadays be found in any big city in the world. ‘Superstar cities and tech hubs will become so expensive that they will turn into gilded and gated communities,’ Florida predicts.51 ‘Their innovative and creative sparks will eventually fade.’ Karl Marx was wrong: it is the rich who are losing their nation, not the proletariat. The gap between global cities and their national anchors is already a metaphor for our times. By contrast, the rise of the robot economy has only half lodged itself in our expectations. It is easy to dismiss some of Silicon Valley’s wilder talk as the stuff of science-fiction movies. But the gap between sci-fi and reality is closing.”",
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                        "text": "“It’s quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian solution while also insisting that, yes, we on our side also have unalterable convictions and are willing to fight for them. After various past allegiances, I have come to believe that Karl Marx was rightist of all when he recommended continual doubt and self-criticism. Member in the skeptical faction or tendency is not at all a soft option. The defense of science and reason is the great imperative of our time… To be an unbeliever is not merely to be “open-minded.” It is, rather, a decisive admission of uncertainty that is dialectically connected to the repudiation of the totalitarian principle, in the mind as well as in politics. But that’s my Hitch-22. I have already described some of my rehearsals for this war… and for the remainder of my days I shall be happy enough to see if I can emulate the understatement of Commander Hitchens, and to say that at least I know what I am supposed to be doing.”",
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                        "text": "Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.",
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                        "text": "“In his early text, somewhat cumbersomely titled 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT,' the young Karl Marx famously noted that religion - the Christian faith, he meant primarily - is 'the opiate of the people.' It's a drug, and it's a 'downer' or 'depressant' insulating people from the pain of oppressive social realities and consoling them with a dream world of heavenly bliss. Alternatively, religion can function as an 'upper,' a 'stimulant' energizing people for the tasks at hand - a function of religion Marx failed to grasp.”",
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                        "text": "“Obama’s claims about teachers and CEOs gets to a broader puzzle about how a capitalist society assigns rewards. At first glance, it seems that there is no relationship between merit and reward. Athletes and entertainers, who provide services much less indispensable than teachers and doctors, earn vastly more than either of those two professions. Earlier I mentioned the example of the parking lot guy who parks all the cars and makes money for the resort, yet he gets a pittance of that money. From his point of view, there is no relationship between work and reward. He does the work, and “they” get the profits. This is pretty much how workers feel in a variety of occupations. They are the “makers” and their bosses are the “takers.” In a truly fair and merit-based society, they should get more and the bosses should get less. These arguments are, whether their proponents recognize it or not, anchored in Karl Marx’s notion of “surplus value.” Marx is largely discredited today, because Communism proved a failure, and Marx’s prophecies proved dead wrong.”",
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                        "text": "“He married and made a home. He went endlessly from house to house and spoke the mission and the truth. The hopeless suffering of his people made in him a madness, a wild and evil feeling of destruction. At times he drank strong liquor and beat his head against the floor. In his heart there was a savage violence, and once he grasped the poker from the hearth and struck down his wife. She took Hamilton, Karl Marx, William, and Portia with her to her father's home. He wrestled in his spirit and fought down the evil blackness. But Daisy did not come back. And eight years later when she died his sons were not children anymore and they did not return to him. He was left an old man in an empty house.”",
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                        "text": "“The obvious differences apart, Karl Marx was no more a reliable prophet than was the Reverend Jim Jones. Karl Marx was a genius, an uncannily resourceful manipulator of world history who shoved everything he knew, thought, and devised into a Ouija board from whose movements he decocted universal laws. He had his following, during the late phases of the Industrial Revolution. But he was discredited by historical experience longer ago than the Wizard of Oz: and still, great grown people sit around, declare themselves to be Marxists, and make excuses for Gulag and Afghanistan.”",
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                        "text": "“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move beyond the ego into something more universal. Religious experience carries us outside of clock time into eternal time. We open ourselves into something more complete and beautiful. This bigger vista is perhaps the most magnificent aspect of a religious experience. There is a sense in which Karl Marx was correct when he said that religion is the opiate of the people. However, he was wrong to scoff at this. Religion can give us skills for climbing up on onto a ledge above our suffering and looking down at it with a kind and open mind. This helps us calm down and connect to all of the world's sufferers. Since the beginning of human time, we have yearned for peace in the face of death, loss, anger and fear. In fact, it is often trauma that turns us toward the sacred, and it is the sacred that saves us.”",
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                        "text": "“Someday I will stop being young and wanting stupid tattoos. There are 7 people in my house. We each have different genders. I cut my hair over the bathroom sink and everything I own has a hole in it. There is a banner in our living room that says “Love Cats Hate Capitalism.” We sit around the kitchen table and argue about the compost pile and Karl Marx and the necessity of violence when The Rev comes. Whatever the fuck The Rev means. Every time my best friend laughs I want to grab him by the shoulders and shout “Grow old with me and never kiss me on the mouth!” I want us to spend the next 80 years together eating Doritos and riding bikes. I want to be Oscar the Grouch. I want him and his girlfriend to be Bert and Ernie. I want us to live on Sesame Street and I will park my trash can on their front stoop and we will be friends every day. If I ever seem grouchy it’s just because I am a little afraid of all that fun. There is a river running through this city I know as well as my own name. It’s the first place I’ve ever called home. I don’t think its poetry to say I’m in love with the water. I don’t think it’s poetry to say I’m in love with the train tracks. I don’t think it’s blasphemy to say I see God in the skyline. There is always cold beer asking to be slurped on back porches. There are always crushed packs of Marlboro’s in my back pockets. I have been wearing the same patched-up shorts for 10 days. Someday I will stop being young and wanting stupid tattoos.”",
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                        "text": "“the so-called radical Negroes who have read and misunderstood Karl Marx and his disciples and would solve the political as well as the economic problems of the race by an immediate application of these principles. History shows that although large numbers of people have actually tried to realize such pleasant dreams, they have in the final analysis come back to a social program based on competition.”",
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                        "text": "“Welch became more confident that the press was reporting his words more accurately, but that worked against him because his discourses on the rise of the Illuminati or the Insiders made him sound strange to some, or worse. In September 1973, he sat for the Boston Globe and just purged. He told the reporter that it all began in Bavaria on May 1, 1776, when Baron Adam Weishaupt founded the Order of the Illuminati. It's all in a book by John Robinson, Welch explained. But the Illuminati were forced underground when Bavarian authorities raided their headquarters. The reporter's eyes probably widened. But by 1840, the Illuminati was strong and produced the Great Revolution of 1848 and the League of the Just Men, which hired Karl Marx to draft Das Kapital. The conspiracy was on the doorsteps of Russia by 1905, Welch continued, and in 1917, the agents of the Illuminati, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, threw over the czars, with funding from the Rotschilds. Welch was on fire now. The Insiders, he continued, went to Yale and Harvard, grew up with all the advantages, controlled American politics and international banking, and wanted to enslave everyone else. In 1912, the Insiders brought in Woodrow Wilson to drag the country into World War I. They convinced America to fight World War II with assistance from Insiders like President Roosevelt and George Marshall. They master-planned the civil rights revolution, and they work through the UN, the Council on Foreign Relations, and tax-free foundations. Perhaps the reporter nodded now and then, encouraging him on.”",
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                        "text": "“When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy. You could blame the mortar rounds. You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. You could blame whole nations. You could blame God. You could blame the munitions makers or Karl Marx or a trick of fate of an old man in Omaha who forgot to vote.”",
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                        "text": "I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.",
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                        "text": "“Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has come into existence because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. I think Karl Marx missed this! I wonder what he would have thought if he had come to these saying of Jesus. Jesus says:…flesh has come into existence because of the spirit…as all religions say—God created the world. That means flesh has come out of the spirit, matter has come out of the mind; consciousness is the source, the world is just a byproduct. Then, Jesus says:…it is a marvel—it is a mystery. …but if the spirit has come into existence because of the body…as atheists say, materialists say, Karl Marx, Charvak and others say…. Marx says that consciousness is a byproduct of matter. This is what all atheists say, that the world is not created out of the spirit, but the spirit is just a ‘by-phenomenon’, an epiphenomenon of matter; it comes out of matter, it is just a byproduct. Then Jesus says:…if the spirit has come into existence because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. The first is just a marvel: that God created the world. But the second is a marvel of marvels—if the world created God. To believe the first is difficult; to believe the second is almost impossible.”",
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                        "text": "“Meanwhile, the government of the United States was behaving almost exactly as Karl Marx described a capitalist state: pretending neutrality to maintain order, but serving the interests of the rich. Not that the rich agreed among themselves; they had disputes over policies. But the purpose of the state was to settle upper-class disputes peacefully, control lower-class rebellion, and adopt policies that would further the long-range stability of the system. The arrangement between Democrats and Republicans to elect Rutherford Hayes in 1877 set the tone. Whether Democrats or Republicans won, national policy would not change in any important way.”",
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                        "text": "“The world,\" said Pavone, \"will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, after the war is over, that will be the only way they can turn. Everything else will have been tried, everything else will have failed. And I am afraid that American will be isolated, hated, backward, we will all be living there like old maids in a lonely house in the woods, locking the doors, looking under the beds, with a fortune in the mattress, not being able to sleep, because every time the wind blows and a floor creaks, we will think the murderers are breaking in to kill us and take our treasure...”",
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                        "text": "Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism… I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.",
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                        "text": "“In 1925, a master plan was instituted to blend the French neo-classical design with the tropical background. The Art Deco movement, both in Havana and in Miami Beach, took hold during the late 1920’s, and is found primarily in the residential section of Miramar. Miramar is where most of the embassies are located, including the massive Russian embassy. The predominant street is Fifth Avenue known as La Quinta Avenida, along which is found the church of Jesus de Miramar, the Teatro Miramar and the Karl Marx Theater. There is also the Old Miramar Yacht Club and the El Ajibe Restaurant, recently visited and televised by Anthony Bourdain on his show, “No Reservations.” Anthony Bourdain originally on the Travel Channel is now being shown on CNN. The modern five-star Meliá Habana hotel, known for its cigar bar, is located opposite the Miramar Trade Centre. Started in 1772, el Paseo del Prado, also known as el Paseo de Marti, became the picturesque main street of Havana. It was the first street in the city to be paved and runs north and south, dividing Centro Habana from Old Havana. Having been designed by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, a French landscape architect, it connects the Malecón, the city’s coastal esplanade, with a centrally located park, Parque Central. Although the streets on either side are still in disrepair, the grand pedestrian walkway goes for ten nicely maintained blocks. The promenade has a decorated, inlaid, marble terrazzo pavement with a balustrade of small posts. It is shaded by a tree-lined corridor and has white marble benches for the weary tourist. Arguably, the Malecón is the most photographed street in Havana. It lies as a bulwark just across the horizon from the United States, which is only 90, sometimes treacherous miles away. It is approximately 5 miles long, following the northern coast of the city from east to west. This broad boulevard is ideal for the revelers partaking in parades and is the street used for Fiesta Mardi Gras, known in Cuba as Los Carnavales. It has at times also been used for “spontaneous demonstrations” against the United States. It runs from the entrance to Havana harbor, alongside the Centro Habana neighborhood to the Vedado neighborhood, past the United States Embassy on the Calle Calzada.”",
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                        "text": "“Contrary to the preaching of dour labourists, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a bit of laziness. Great philosophers through the ages have argued in its favour. Aristotle explicitly recognized the necessity of aergia, laziness, for contemplative thought. Bertrand Russell wrote a celebrated essay, In Praise of Idleness. Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx’s son-in-law, authored a subversive book entitled The Right to be Lazy that communists detested because it made the case against forcing everybody to labour more intensively. Today, however, the words ‘idleness’ and ‘lazy’ are used pejoratively to convey indolence, time wasting and drift. What is wrong with idleness? In modern society, more than ever, we need to slow down and recall the wisdom of Cato when he said, ‘Never is a man more active than when he does nothing.’ We are in danger of losing the capacity to reflect, to deliberate, to ponder, even to communicate and to learn in the true sense of that term.”",
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                        "text": "What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.",
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                        "text": "“That's not what justice is,\" the colonel jeered, and began pounding the table again with his big fat hand. \"That's what Karl Marx is. I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough enough to fight Billy Petrolle. From the hip. Get it?”",
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                        "text": "Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.",
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