Friedrich Engels

The more a science advances, the more it is divided into separate branches, and the more these branches, in turn, are further subdivided.

From the first moment of their historical appearance, the working class has demanded the abolition of wage labour.

A nation cannot be free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations.

The worker is the slave of capital, and the capitalist is the slave of his own capital.

In a word, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

It is no longer a question of whether the proletariat will seize power, but when.

The first requisite of all history is the production of the means to satisfy these needs, the production of material life itself.

The world is not to be understood as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of processes.

The more I get to know people, the more I love dogs.

The demand for the liberation of the oppressed nation is nothing but the consistent expression of the struggle against oppression in general.

The ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in the brains of men, not in men's better insight into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange.

It is not enough to abolish the existing relations of property, but rather to revolutionize them, to abolish the old relations of production in general, and with them the old conditions of society.

The conditions of life of the proletariat are therefore the conditions of life of humanity today.

We are not dealing here with a philosophical theory, but with a practical movement.

The old society, with its classes and class antagonisms, is to be replaced by an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

The abolition of private property is therefore by no means the result of an arbitrary act of will, but the necessary result of the development of the productive forces.

Only in the community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

The first act by virtue of which the state really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society — this first act is also its last as a state.

The more the economic conditions of society are subjected to the control of the individual, the more will the individual be free.

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.