Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

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

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The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

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

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There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

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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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