Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSSome 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 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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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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