Life is the mode of action of proteins.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFreedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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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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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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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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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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.
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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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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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