Naturally, 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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIn 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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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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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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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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 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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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The 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.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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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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