Quote

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Karl Marx

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Marx
Age: 64 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 5
Died: 1883
Died: March 14
Economist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Sociologist
Treveris
Karl Heinrich Marx
Marx
Philosophical
Atheism
Happiness
Religion
Firsts
Requisite
First
Abolition
People
Agnostic
Atheist

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
Karl Marx
Image
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
Karl Marx
Image
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
Karl Marx
Image
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
Karl Marx
Image
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Karl Marx
Image
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
Karl Marx
Image
[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.
Karl Marx
Image
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Karl Marx
Image
A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.
Karl Marx
Image
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
Karl Marx
Image
May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.
Karl Marx
Image
An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.
Karl Marx
Image
A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.
Karl Marx
Image
Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
Karl Marx
Image
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.
Karl Marx
Image
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
Karl Marx
Image
The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.
Karl Marx
Image
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
Karl Marx
Image
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
Karl Marx
Image
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
Karl Marx