The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
Karl MarxReligion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.
Karl MarxWe have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Karl MarxCapitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.
Karl Marx