Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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 would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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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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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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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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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.
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