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“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world...

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”
― Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact.

I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“از همه اندوهگین تر کسی است که از همه بیشتر می خندد”
― ژان پل سارتر / Jean-Paul Sartre

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“L'enfer, c'est les autres.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches

“In love, one and one are one.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Love truth, but pardon error.”
― Voltaire

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
― Voltaire

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
― Rousseau

“هرچه قضاوت آنها درباره من سخت بوده ‌باشد نمی‌دانند که من پیشتر خودم را سخت‌تر قضاوت کرده‌ام”
― صادق هدایت, زنده به‌گور

“خاصیت هر نسلی اینست که آزمایش نسل گذشته را فراموش بکند”
― صادق هدایت

“اگر مرگ نبود همه ارزویش میکردند”
― صادق هدایت

“برای کسی که در گور است زمان معنی خودش را گم میکند”
― صادق هدایت

“ای مرگ تو نوشداروی ماتمزدگی و نا امیدی می باشی تو پرتو درخشانی اما تاریکت میپندارند ”
― صادق هدایت

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall