One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
FRIEDRICH ENGELSEverything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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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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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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 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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