It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAnd what is impossible to science?
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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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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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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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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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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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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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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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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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
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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 society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
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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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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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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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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
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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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