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Karl Marx

The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
KARL MARX

Criticism Religion Tears
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.
KARL MARX

Book Dance Eat Inspirational Paint Reading Theatre
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
KARL MARX

Capital Dead Labour Live Suck Vampire
Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
KARL MARX

Himself Illusion Man Religion Revolve Sun
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.
KARL MARX

Accumulation Brutal Ignorance Misery Opposite Pole Slave Time Wealth
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
KARL MARX

Criticism Foundation Man Religion
As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.
KARL MARX

Commodity exchange Labour Quantity Time Value
Communism begins where atheism begins.
KARL MARX

Atheist Beginning Community One Liner
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
KARL MARX

Capital Deep Hang Rope Soul
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.
KARL MARX

Adjustment Affair Community Establishment Ideal Reality State
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX

Happiness People Religion Requisite
I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.
KARL MARX

Against Atheist God Myself Rule
You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
KARL MARX

Aware Disparate Labour Quantity Quite Reward
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
KARL MARX

Absence History Opposite Peace Social
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
KARL MARX

Brain Generation Live Nightmare Traditional
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
KARL MARX

Against Expression Protest Religious Suffering Time

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