Friedrich Engels Short Quotes

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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

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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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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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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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