If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

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Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

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The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

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...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

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There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

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