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.
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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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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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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