One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. The Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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