 | Karl Marx - 1970 - 228 pages
...aroma. The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression of and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the...soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is a demand for their true happiness.... | |
 | Thomas G. Harding, Ben J. Wallace - 1970 - 516 pages
...Thus for Marx (1964:135), "The religious world is but the reflex of the real world", and (1964:42) "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people." For Durkheim (1954:418),... | |
 | Richard Bernstein - 1971 - 368 pages
...suffering is the expression of real suffering and at the same time the protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion... | |
 | William Henn - 2004 - 177 pages
...Need the Church at All? 1 He wrote: 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment 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 men, is a demand for their real happiness. The... | |
 | Tejumola Olaniyan - 2004 - 262 pages
...because they are an inverted world. . . . Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment 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 men, is a demand for their real happiness. The... | |
 | J. Philip Wogaman - 2004 - 226 pages
...and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.2 It is better, according to this, to have the fantasy of humanness than no humanness at all.... | |
 | Michael Wakely - 2004 - 230 pages
...materialism that pervades the present. Karl Marx's famous critique of Christianity carries a grain of truth: 'Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world ... the opium of the people.' But his solution undermined all true hope: 'To abolish religion as the... | |
 | Jennifer Michael Hecht - 2010 - 578 pages
...rotten; make their lives better and religion will melt away. In an 1844 paper (on Hegel), Marx wrote: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of... | |
 | Bret Wallach - 2005 - 420 pages
...civilizations, too. It's even a cliche, coming from an 1844 critique of Hegel in which Karl Marx wrote that religion is "the sigh of the oppressed creature, the...soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." Opium or not, many people do bear poverty more readily if they consider this life only a trial. Such... | |
 | Mark Leone - 2005 - 355 pages
...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...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.... | |
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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and 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 a spiritless situation. It is the... 
