Religion (n.) is an illusory happiness in a distorted mode of existence that has need of illusions to provide happiness. To move beyond religion is to move beyond that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Religion (n.) is an inverted consciousness of the world, because the state and society are an inverted world.
Religion's (n.) abolition is the first requisite for the happiness of the people.
Religion (n.) is the seat of a paradoxical kind of distress. It is at one and the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. It 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.
Religion's (n.) criticism is, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Religion (n.) is a thing which to struggle against is indirectly to struggle struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religion (n.) is a thing offering an illusory sense of happiness and consolation. Thus, its abolition can only come about, not through criticism, but by changing the socioeconomic order of the heartless, inhuman world that made such illusions necessary.
Religion's (n.) abolition is the abolition of the illusory happiness of the people and 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.
Religion (n.) is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality.
Religion (n.) is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification.
Religion (n.) is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Religion (n.) is the opium of the masses.
Religion (n.) is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man, who has either not found himself or has already lost himself again. Insofar as man fails to realize that it is he who makes religion (I.E a universal ground held fast by its own logic and moral sanction) , rather than the other way around, fails to realize that they suffer from a reversed world consciousness, a reversed world.
Religion (n.) is opium for the people.
Religion (n.) is the heart in a heartless world.
Religion (n.) is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.