Top 70 Friedrick Engels Quotes (2024 Update)
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Friedrick Engels Quote: “The state, then, is by no means a power forced on society from outside; neither is it the “realization of the ethical idea,” “the image and the realization of reason,” as Hegel maintains. It is simply a product of society at a certain stage of evolution. It is the confession that this society has become hopelessly divided against itself, has entangled itself in irreconcilable contradictions which it is powerless to banish. In.”

51. “The state, then, is by no means a power forced on society from outside; neither is it the “realization of the ethical idea,” “the image and the realization of reason,” as Hegel maintains. It is simply a product of society at a certain stage of evolution. It is the confession that this society has become hopelessly divided against itself, has entangled itself in irreconcilable contradictions which it is powerless to banish. In.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “But the degradation of the women was avenged in the men and degraded them also, until they sank into the abomination of boy-love.”

54. “But the degradation of the women was avenged in the men and degraded them also, until they sank into the abomination of boy-love.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “Robert Owen had adopted the teaching of the materialistic philosophers: that man’s character is the product, on the one hand, of heredity; on the other, of the environment of the individual during his lifetime, and especially during his period of development.”

55. “Robert Owen had adopted the teaching of the materialistic philosophers: that man’s character is the product, on the one hand, of heredity; on the other, of the environment of the individual during his lifetime, and especially during his period of development.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged.”

56. “The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “Actually, each mental image of the world system is and remains limited, objectively by the historical situation and subjectively by its author’s physical and mental constitution.”

58. “Actually, each mental image of the world system is and remains limited, objectively by the historical situation and subjectively by its author’s physical and mental constitution.”

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

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

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manufacturer, so far at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portion of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.”

60. “No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manufacturer, so far at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portion of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “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.”

61. “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.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms.”

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

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “Modern Industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist.”

64. “Modern Industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.”

65. “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.”

66. “According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “It is the Darwinian struggle of the individual for existence transferred from Nature to society with intensified violence.”

67. “It is the Darwinian struggle of the individual for existence transferred from Nature to society with intensified violence.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “I wanted more than a mere abstract knowledge of my subject, I wanted to see you in your own homes, to observe you in your everyday life, to chat with you on your condition and grievances, to witness your struggles against the social and political power of your oppressors.”

68. “I wanted more than a mere abstract knowledge of my subject, I wanted to see you in your own homes, to observe you in your everyday life, to chat with you on your condition and grievances, to witness your struggles against the social and political power of your oppressors.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “The wage-worker sells to the capitalist his labour-force for a certain daily sum. After a few hours’ work he has reproduced the value of that sum; but the substance of his contract is, that he has to work another series of hours to complete his working-day; and the value he produces during these additional hours of surplus labour is surplus value, which cost the capitalist nothing, but yet goes into his pocket.”

69. “The wage-worker sells to the capitalist his labour-force for a certain daily sum. After a few hours’ work he has reproduced the value of that sum; but the substance of his contract is, that he has to work another series of hours to complete his working-day; and the value he produces during these additional hours of surplus labour is surplus value, which cost the capitalist nothing, but yet goes into his pocket.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “Production has become a social act. Exchange and appropriation continue to be individual acts, the acts of individuals. The social product is appropriated by the individual capitalist. Fundamental contradiction, whence arise all the contradictions in which our present-day society moves, and which modern industry brings to light.”

70. “Production has become a social act. Exchange and appropriation continue to be individual acts, the acts of individuals. The social product is appropriated by the individual capitalist. Fundamental contradiction, whence arise all the contradictions in which our present-day society moves, and which modern industry brings to light.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “We have, then, three main forms of the family, corresponding in general to the three main stages of human development. For savagery group marriage, for barbarism the pairing family, for civilization monogamy supplemented by adultery and prostitution. Between the pairing family and monogamy, in the higher stage of barbarism, the rule of men over female slaves and polygamy is inserted. As.”

71. “We have, then, three main forms of the family, corresponding in general to the three main stages of human development. For savagery group marriage, for barbarism the pairing family, for civilization monogamy supplemented by adultery and prostitution. Between the pairing family and monogamy, in the higher stage of barbarism, the rule of men over female slaves and polygamy is inserted. As.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.”

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

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “To get the most out of life you must be active, you must live and you must have the courage to taste the thrill of being young.”

73. “To get the most out of life you must be active, you must live and you must have the courage to taste the thrill of being young.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “Though not expressly stated in our recognised treatises, it is still a law of modern Political Economy that the larger the scale on which Capitalistic Production is carried on, the less can it support the petty devices of swindling and pilfering which characterise its early stages.”

74. “Though not expressly stated in our recognised treatises, it is still a law of modern Political Economy that the larger the scale on which Capitalistic Production is carried on, the less can it support the petty devices of swindling and pilfering which characterise its early stages.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying.”

75. “No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “It is quite obvious that all legislation is calculated to protect those that possess property against those who do not.”

76. “It is quite obvious that all legislation is calculated to protect those that possess property against those who do not.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “The next world war wil result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a progress.”

77. “The next world war wil result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a progress.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “Old materialism looked upon all previous history as a crude heap of irrationality and violence; modern materialism sees in it the process of evolution of humanity, and aims at discovering the laws thereof.”

78. “Old materialism looked upon all previous history as a crude heap of irrationality and violence; modern materialism sees in it the process of evolution of humanity, and aims at discovering the laws thereof.”

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Friedrick Engels Quote: “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”

79. “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”

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