Best Friedrich Engels Quotes
- Without analysis, no synthesis. Analysis
- I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. All
- 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 time… Aim
- But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous… Behind
- By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class… Bourgeoisie
- The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where… Air
- Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. Consists
- Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of… Any
- Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with… All
- What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class… Any
- It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. Anywhere
- How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction… Community
- What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. Each
- No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations. Free
- It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste. Appear
- The state is not abolished, it withers away. Abolish
- One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought? Brain
- Life is the mode of action of proteins. Action
- Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you… Cards
- The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a… Class
- Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Freedom
- All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. All
- Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. Existence
- If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living. Funny
- All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. All