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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAll that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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