Marx on Love and Religion

"If you love without evoking love in return, i.e. if you are not able, by the manifestation of yourself as a loving person, to make yourself a beloved person, then your love is impotent and a misfortune."

-Karl Marx 'The Power of Money' (1844)

"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."

- Karl Marx 'Introduction to A Contribution to A Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right' (1844)