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“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.”

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It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only…

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There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or…

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Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

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“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;…

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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an…

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Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for…

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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals…

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I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free…

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In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage…

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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

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They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this…

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