The quotations of

Friedrich Engels

German philosopher, sociologist and economist

1820–1895

7 quotes, most often on Freedom.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries…unite!
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto (1848), Section 4, paragraph 11 (last paragraph)
- Government
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.
Principles of Communism (1847)
- Politics
Democracy would be wholly valueless to the proletariat if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property and ensuring the livelihood of the proletariat.
Principles of Communism (1847)
- Democracy
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
Anti-Dühring, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1877)
- Freedom
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
Letter to Marx (4 September 1870)
- Fear
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
Anti-Dühring, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1877)
- Freedom
- Knowledge
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
Letter to Joseph Bloch (21 September 1890)
- History

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