Friedrich Engels

“All class="highlight">history has been a class="highlight">history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.”

“The dialectic is nothing more than the science of the general laws of motion and development of nature, human society and thought.”

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

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”

“The state is not 'abolished,' it withers away.”

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”

“From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.”

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine.”

“It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.”

“Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.”

“What is held of all, by all, and for all, cannot be bestowed on any one in particular.”