"History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights……" — Karl Marx
"History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes."
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Karl Marx
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331 Quotes by Karl Marx
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