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"26 Friedrich Engels Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 November 1820. Died: 5 August 1895 | Philosopher | Historian | Communist | Sociologist | Journalist |

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

First Day Sheer Driving
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
Nation Free Oppresses Other
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

Ideas Kindle Electrical Sparks
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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.

Forget Done People Time
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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Curious Great Revolutionary-movement Question
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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.

Class Opposition History Development
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
Science New View Revolution
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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.

Emancipation Woman Production Large
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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.

Slave Frees Private Abolishes
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time

Real Human History Irrational
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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.

Sound Common-sense Respectable Homely
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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.

Political Economy Natural Expansion
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The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.

Middle Classes Extraordinary Conception
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscure, 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.

Ideology Men Circumstances Appear
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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Free Development Condition
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Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Life Mode Action Proteins
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Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

Charge Wanting Exploitation Children
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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.

Freedom Consist Dreamt-of Independence
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What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.
Good Ruling class Alleged Society
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Terror Useless Cruelties Perpetrated
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Sense Communists Summed Single-sentence
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Everything Justify Existence Judgement
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

Political Class Organisationa Trade
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Laws State Aimed Crime
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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

History Class Struggle Dominated
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Freedom Recognition Necessity
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Friedrich Engels Quotes & Sayings