An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

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.