Friedrich Engels Quotes

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

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

What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

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

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

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

A spectre is haunting Europe - the

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

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

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

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

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

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

But the degradation of the women was avenged in the men and degraded them also, until they sank into the abomination of boy-love.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

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.

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

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

Without analysis, no synthesis.

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

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.

A change in Quantity also entails a change in Quality

And what is impossible to science?

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.