74 Quotes by Friedrick Engels

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

The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets.

And what is impossible to science?

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

And if strict monogamy is the height of all virtue, then the palm must go to the tapeworm, which has a complete set of male and female sexual organs in each of its 50-200 proglottides, or sections, and spends its whole life copulating in all its sections with itself.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

That the mutual affection of the people concerned should be the one paramount reason for marriage, outweighing everything else, was and always had been absolutely unheard of in the practice of the ruling classes; that sort of thing only happened in romance – or among the oppressed classes, which did not count.

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

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.