The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Truth is general, it does not belong to me alone, it belongs to all, it owns me, I do not own it.… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In the so-called Christian State it is true that alienation counts, but not the individual. The only individual who counts, the king,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of… — Karl Marx Copy Share
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx Copy Share
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which… — Karl Marx Copy Share
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work… — Karl Marx Copy Share
