--- title: "4 Franz Oppenheimer Quotes" description: "Franz Oppenheimer was a German-American sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b040/author-franz-oppenheimer-70039.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Franz Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b040/author-franz-oppenheimer-70039.jpg) # Franz Oppenheimer **4** quotes in **38** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Franz Oppenheimer was a German-American sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state. ## Quotes by Franz Oppenheimer > [I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/i-propose-in-the-following-discussion-to-call-one-s-own-labor-and-the/) Franz Oppenheimer [Appropriation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/appropriation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41c/franz-oppenheimer-70039_appropriation_i-propose-in-the-following-discussion-to_247950.png) > [I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/i-mean-by-society-the-totality-of-concepts-of-all-purely-natural/) Franz Oppenheimer [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fe/franz-oppenheimer-70039_concepts_i-mean-by-society-the-totality-of-concep_975358.png) > [The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/the-state-completely-in-its-genesis-essentially-and-almost-completely/) Franz Oppenheimer [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48b/franz-oppenheimer-70039_defeated_the-state-completely-in-its-genesis-esse_2073894.jpg) > [“The ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-oppenheimer/the-ruling-class-is-opposed-to-the-lower-class-that-is-closed-to-the/) Franz Oppenheimer [Class struggle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/class-struggle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/franz-oppenheimer-70039_class-struggle_the-ruling-class-is-opposed-to-the-lower_2121524.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-oppenheimer/#itemlist", "name": "Franz Oppenheimer Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I propose in the following discussion to call one's 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