It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSTerror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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 state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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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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