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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFreedom is the recognition of necessity.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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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 state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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And what is impossible to science?
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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