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Friedrich Engels Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“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
“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
“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
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