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Friedrich Engels Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.”
— Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Tagged: Agnosticism, Science, Marxism, Ignorance
“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Tagged: Women, Labor, Equality, rights
“Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Tagged: Exploitation, Child Abuse, Child Labor
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Tagged: Communism, Abolition, Private Property, Equality of Goods
“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 they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
Tagged: poor, Modern Society, Inequality, Treatment
“What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Tagged: Oligarchs, ruling class, Class, Society
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Tagged: Communism, Revolution, ruling class, Proletarians
“Everywhere the proletariat develops in step with the bourgeoisie. In proportion, as the bourgeoisie grows in wealth, the proletariat grows in numbers.”
— Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism
Tagged: Proletariat, Bourgeoisie, poor, Inequality, Wealth
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Tagged: Political Power, Oppresion, ruling class, Power
“With the pairing family, therefore, the abduction and barter of women began—widespread symptoms, and nothing but that, of a new and much more profound change.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Tagged: Women, Abuse, Inequality, Barter, Marriage
“The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Tagged: Development, condition, Free
“The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.”
— Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism
Tagged: Capitalists, Labor, workers, Inequality
“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 systematically making them work towards definite ends.”
— Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring
Tagged: Freedom, Laws, Knowledge, system
“There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.”
— Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism
Tagged: poor, Working Class, workers, laborer, Conditions
“Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the present time; wealth, more wealth, and wealth again; wealth not of society, but of this shabby individual was its sole and determining aim.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Tagged: Political Theory, Money, Wealth
“That the mutual affection of the people concerned should be the one paramount reason for marriage, outweighing everything else, was and always had been absolutely unheard of in the practice of the ruling classes; that sort of thing only happened in romance – or among the oppressed classes, which did not count.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Tagged: affection, Marriage, ruling class, poor, romance, Inequality
“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.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Penguin Classics)
“If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.”
— Friedrich Engels, Collected Works
Tagged: french, Life, Living, Worth
“Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man
Tagged: Labour, Source, Wealth, Materialism, Human Existence
“The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piece meal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class.”
— Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
Tagged: Slavery, Ownership, Freedom
“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 democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
— Friedrich Engels, Introduction to 1891 edition of Karl Marx's, The Civil War in France
Tagged: monarchies, Democracy, Opression, oligarchy
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