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Best Quotes by Friedrich Engels (Top 10)

  1. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
  2. All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
  6. Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
  7. Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
  8. From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
  9. 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.
  10. The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

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