Friedrich Engels

A nation cannot be free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. The emancipation of Germany cannot therefore take place without the emancipation of Poland from German oppression.

Society can no longer exist as a community of free and equal individuals, but only as a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others.

The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

The English working class is nothing but a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others.

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

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.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital.

The proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class.

The whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes.

The development of modern industry has cut from under its feet the very ground on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

In a communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.

Only the proletariat, due to its position in society, can bring about a truly revolutionary transformation.

The will of the people is the will of God.

The first condition of all freedom is not to be a slave.

The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.

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

As long as the individual is not free, he cannot truly love.

The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.