Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

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.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.