If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSHegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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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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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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