Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSTerror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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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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By 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.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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