...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.” — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image