If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSNaturally, 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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 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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. The Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
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