black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Friedrich Engels

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Civilization Greedy Philosophy
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class History Marriage Men Oppression Sex Woman
And what is impossible to science?
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Impossible One Liner Science
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Brain Discover Facts Invention
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Art Give Up Philosophy
In 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 ENGELS

Country Nation Years
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

Class Live Mean Order Power
All 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 ENGELS

Class Development History Struggle
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Action Life Science
We 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 ENGELS

Nation Poltics Power Reality
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Class Organization Struggle Weapon
Freedom 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 ENGELS

Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Community Politics Thinking
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Appearance Religion Victory World Years
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Balzac History Learning Togetherness
The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

Anger Ideas True War Wrath

One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Friedrich Engels Quotes