Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

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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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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

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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 boot-maker.

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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

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