On the Jewish Question Quotes

“Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.”
― Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

“Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.”
― Karl Marx, On Jewish Question

“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion, is the real, conscious standpoint, the virtue of the man of money. The species-relation itself, the relation between man and woman, etc., becomes an object of trade! The woman is bought and sold.”
― Karl Marx, On Jewish Question

“In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony God's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence.”
― Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

“Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.”
― Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question

“من هنا فإن الإنسان لم يُحرر من الدين و إنما حصل على الحرية الدينية. لم يُحرر من الملكية و إنما حصل على حرية الملكية. لم يُحرر من أنانية المهنة و إنما حصل على حرية المهنة.”
― Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question