The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.
The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
Music is the mirror of reality.
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?
One capitalist always kills many.
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.
Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
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