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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSEverything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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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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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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 free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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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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