Friedrich Engels Quotes

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.

Friedrich Engels

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• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

  

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• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

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• I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.

  

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• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

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• I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

  

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• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

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• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

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• It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

  

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• When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

  

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• I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

  

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• We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

  

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• When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

  

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• The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

  

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• If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.

  

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• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  

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• When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

  

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• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

  

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• Marriage is wonderful.

  

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• McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling lies, you know, McCarthy was doing that. At the time, the media, Democrats, and Republicans were all paralyzed - not all, but most of them were paralyzed. They didn't know how to deal with this.

  

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• The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.

  

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• You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

  

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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.

  

  Friedrich Engels