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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIf there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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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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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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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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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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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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And what is impossible to science?
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