I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSI have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWe find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends — the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIt is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSNo nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSWhat each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIf there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSDon’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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFreedom is the recognition of necessity.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSIn 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation – the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially – hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSSome laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSFreedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSAll history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSBy the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSThe free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS