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 ENGELSIdeas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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 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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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