Friedrich Engels

"Philosophy without practice is mere abstraction."

"Literature captures the dreams and struggles of peoples across time."

"Politics is the art of determining whose interests shall prevail."

"The future is not written but will be created by human hands."

"Technology serves whoever controls it, not some neutral purpose."

"History is written by those who make it, not those who merely observe."

"Imagination constrained by poverty cannot flower into creation."

"Solitude permits us to question what society takes for granted."

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State."

"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."

"The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another."

"Freedom is so precious that it must be rationed."

"Religion is the opium of the masses, a tool used to keep workers docile and accepting of their exploitation."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"Quantity becomes quality when change reaches a certain point."

"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary practice."

"The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals."

"We should burn daylight to accomplish what must be done for the people's liberation."

"Nature is also included in the total scheme of history and must be studied as part of human development."

"In a truly communist society, labor becomes a means of self-expression rather than mere survival."

"The division of labor is the foundation of the division of classes."

"Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since looking at the matter more closely, it will always be found that the task itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present."

"As to what is called 'God,' that is a problem I have not examined since my attention was wholly occupied with human affairs."

"The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by weapons."

"Despotism has a hard heart, and ambition is cruel."

"The bourgeoisie have created a world after their own image."

"Knowledge becomes power only when applied to change the material conditions of life."

"In the end, people will always be attracted to freedom, though the path to it is long and arduous."

"The history of all previous society is the history of class struggles."

"Without struggle, there is no progress toward a better world."