The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSLife is the mode of action of proteins.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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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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The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
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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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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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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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