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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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And what is impossible to science?
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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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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Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world. The Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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