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 ENGELSSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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