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.

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.