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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSBy 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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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 free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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