Friedrich Engels Quotes

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• Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple…
• And what is impossible to science?
• A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the…
• People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by…
• All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war will…
• ...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,…
• From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
• Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
• People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the…
• The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
• Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the…
• We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends --…
• Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
• 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…
• The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes…
• 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…
• The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a…
• Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than…
• By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany…

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