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 ENGELSThe way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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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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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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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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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