One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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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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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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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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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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
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And what is impossible to science?
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The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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