If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIn 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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The 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.
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It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
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The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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