“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.”

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Take away a nation’s heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

People who demand a long life are actually the ones who suffer life. Blessed are those people who live their whole life in a blink of an eye.

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

A love that demands love will burn the very essence of what once made it pure.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others – these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

If your dreams demand you to walk through hell, walk-in as you are the owner of the place.