Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

— Friedrich Engels

And what is impossible to science?

— Friedrich Engels

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

— Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

— Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

— Friedrich Engels

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

— Friedrich Engels

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

— Friedrich Engels

Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

— Friedrich Engels

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not…

— 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

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures…

— Friedrich Engels

Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says…

— 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

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence…

— Friedrich Engels

“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence…

— Friedrich Engels

In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides,…

— Friedrich Engels

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon…

— Friedrich Engels

We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most…

— Friedrich Engels

Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to…

— Friedrich Engels

Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people,…

— Friedrich Engels

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole…

— 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

“Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for…

— Friedrich Engels

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that…

— Friedrich Engels

What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat…

— Friedrich Engels

“Malthus declares in plain English that the right to live, a right previously asserted in favour of every man in the world,…

— Friedrich Engels

The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization…

— Friedrich Engels

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of…

— 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

“In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many…

— Friedrich Engels

“The 'Manifesto' being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to…

— Friedrich Engels

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden…

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Friedrich Engels