In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIreland 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 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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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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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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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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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And what is impossible to science?
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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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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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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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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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