Quote

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

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
People
Religious
Distress
Religion
Oppressed
Spirit
Protest
Also
Creature
Real
Condition
Heart
Creatures
Opium
Time
Conditions
Heartless
World
Expression
Sigh

More quotes by Karl Marx

Image
Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong but always by the strength of the weak.
Karl Marx
Image
The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got
Karl Marx
Image
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
Karl Marx
Image
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
Karl Marx
Image
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx
Image
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
Karl Marx
Image
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.
Karl Marx
Image
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
Karl Marx
Image
Moments are the elements of profit
Karl Marx
Image
These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.
Karl Marx
Image
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
Karl Marx
Image
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
Image
In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
Karl Marx
Image
By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.
Karl Marx
Image
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
Karl Marx
Image
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.
Karl Marx
Image
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.
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
The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.
Karl Marx
Image
Communism begins where atheism begins.
Karl Marx