74 Quotes by Friedrick Engels

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Monogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but on economic conditions, viz.: the victory of private property over primitive and natural collectivism.

Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

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.

No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms.

Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

This police force consisted – of slaves. The free Athenian regarded this police duty as so degrading that he preferred being arrested by an armed slave rather than lending himself to such an ignominious service.