By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.
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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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