Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..’If you don’t like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSBy 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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 no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
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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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