Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWithout analysis, no synthesis.
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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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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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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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.
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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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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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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