Friedrich Engels Quotes

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 possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

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

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and c

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the state? All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, th

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this.

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his turn tomorrow? Who assures him employment, who vouches for it that, if for any reason or no reason his lord and master discharges him tomorrow, he can str

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

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