Quotes of Friedrich Engels - somelinesforyou

“ An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ 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

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

- Friedrich Engels

“ Tradition is a great resistant force and the inertia of history. Yet because it is only negative, it must be destroyed. ”

- Friedrich Engels

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

- Friedrich Engels

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

- Friedrich Engels

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

- Friedrich Engels

“ Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ 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

“ The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another — no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another — no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ”

- Friedrich Engels

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

- Friedrich Engels

“ Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ”

- Friedrich Engels

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

- Friedrich Engels

“ Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another — no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ 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

“ Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ The state is not abolished, it withers away. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ 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

“ The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another — no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. ”

- Friedrich Engels

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Friedrich Engels

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

- Friedrich Engels
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