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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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

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

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

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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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Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

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Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

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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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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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