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.
KARL MARXThe criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
More Karl Marx Quotes
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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
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Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
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Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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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 task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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I am a machine condemned to devour books.
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Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.
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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
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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.
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The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
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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 impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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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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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
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Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.
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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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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Surround yourself with people who make you happy.
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Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.
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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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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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