My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

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The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

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Communism begins where atheism begins.

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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

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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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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

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There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

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