The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion 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.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.