It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe 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.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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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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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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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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And what is impossible to science?
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In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
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Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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