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Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man.
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
Thus heaven I’ve forfeited,
I know it full well.
My soul, once true to God,
Is chosen for hell.
The Pale Maiden (1837)
Law, morality, religion, are ... so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests