Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWhat each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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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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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
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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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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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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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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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 way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
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