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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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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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Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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 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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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