Condemnation Quote by Erich Fromm

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped…

— Tom Clancy

“In his early text, somewhat cumbersomely titled 'Towards a Critique of Hegel's PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT,' the young Karl Marx famously noted that religion -…

— Miroslav Volf

“Marx concocted his heresy in a time in which greatly increased knowledge of nature had, as we remarked earlier, sent Nature’s God into the…

— Revilo P. Oliver

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

— Erich Fromm

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

— Cyprian

In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see in these…

— Leon V. DePoncins

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

— Thomas Szasz

There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil;…

— John Carroll

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her…

— Pope Pius XI

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens