Friedrich Engels

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.”

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

— Friedrich Engels

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that,…

— Friedrich Engels

...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the…

— Friedrich Engels

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science,…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various…

— Friedrich Engels

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as…

— Friedrich Engels

The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

“struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified…

— Friedrich Engels

“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels