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.

Karl Marx (via philosophy-quotes)

So happy someone finally has the opiate quote in context.

Karl Marx liked a lot of things about religion! He thought it a great way to instill morality and philosophy into the masses. His goal was a world where that wasn’t needed.

He also saw the religious institutions as beholden to hegemonic capitalist interests, which they were/are

Professors who don’t know Marx fuck this up all the time.

(via brosephstalin)

(via applesluts)

Source: philosophy-quotes

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    Thanks, I didn’t know this is what he said. I also like the Calvin and Hobbes comment on the mistaken quote.
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