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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFrom the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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.
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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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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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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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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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