Friedrich Engels — "Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation."

"The more you develop, the more you discover that you are not an individual but merely a part of a collective."

"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 …"

"The proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class."

"But the state is by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it 'the reality of the ethical idea', 'the image and reality of reason', as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a prod…"