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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Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. ― karl marx

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

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The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

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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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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. ― Karl Marx,

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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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Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

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

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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. ― Willaim Lyon Phelps

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