Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWe 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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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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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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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