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Friedrich Engels Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the german philosopher Friedrich Engels on topics like state, class, social

  • An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

    — Friedrich Engels on actions
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  • Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

    — Friedrich Engels on law
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  • Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

    — Friedrich Engels on marx
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  • The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

    — Friedrich Engels on class
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  • Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

    — Friedrich Engels on commune
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  • 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.

    — Friedrich Engels on adversaries
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  • By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

    — Friedrich Engels on class
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  • From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

    — Friedrich Engels on civilization
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  • It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

    — Friedrich Engels on natural
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  • All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

    — Friedrich Engels on class
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  • Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

    — Friedrich Engels on existence
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  • 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 on government
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  • About Friedrich Engels

    Name Friedrich Engels
    Quotes 14 quotations
    Nationality German
    Profession Philosopher
    Birthday October 16
    About Friedrich Engels was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. Together they produced The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death.
    Top topics state, class, social, monarchy, democratic
  • The state is not abolished, it withers away.

    — Friedrich Engels on state
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  • The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out.

    — Friedrich Engels on act
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