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

Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Age Class Ideas Rule
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
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Circumstance Existence History Men Past Please Transmit
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Goodness Hell Intention One Liner Pave Road
You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.
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Aware Disparate Labour Quantity Quite Reward
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are ‘peaceful’.
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Devil Especially Movement Peace
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
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Appearance Essence Science
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 theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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Abolishment Community Philosophy Private Property Sentence Theory
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
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God Man Men Original
Religion 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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Consicous Himself Indeed Lost Man Religion Self Esteem Win
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
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Deep Healing Learning Suffering Thinking
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Human Mind Occurance Religion Understand
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
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Apparatus Army Court Executive Government Identity Tax
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Objective Philosophy Utility Value
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
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Fight Money Reason
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

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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