The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
KARL MARXReligion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again.
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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
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I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!
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Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps.
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The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Communism begins where atheism begins.
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Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.
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May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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