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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

Friedrich Engels

And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
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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Existence Freedom Order Speak Use
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
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Freedom Relationship Slave
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
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Fire Force Nature Perfection Walk
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Class Organization Struggle Weapon
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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Class Democracy Oppression Politics Republic States
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Art Give Up Philosophy
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.
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Agreement Civilization History
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
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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Material Men Money Nature Political
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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Anger Ideas True War Wrath
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Fear Order People Useless
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Nomenclature Revolution Science Statistics Views
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Balzac History Learning Togetherness

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

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