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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.

Karl Marx

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Human Mind Occurance Religion Understand
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Appearance Essence Science
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
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Against Expression Protest Religious Suffering Time
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Happiness People Religion Requisite
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
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Criticism Foundation Man Religion
Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
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Dominate Essence Himself Labour Life Man Money Worship
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
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Demand Happiness People Religion
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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Change Inspirational Task Understand World
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things.
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Money Universe Value
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.
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Appropriate Community Deprive Labour Power Product Society
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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Analysis Appearance Commodity Extreme Obvious Physical Strange
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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History Repeat Tragedy
People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
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Care Genuine Inspirational Laugh Life Need People Worth
The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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Criticism Religion Tears
Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
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Clothes Condition Himself History Man Politics
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Absence History Opposite Peace Social

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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