Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.