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The Christian religion and mo...

The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

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Patriotism ... is a superstit...

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

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Political violence is organiz...

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

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If not for the direct action ...

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

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Liberty will not descend to a...

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

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Men and women ... do you not ...

Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like na?ve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

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"All government in essence," ...

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.

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There's never been a good gov...

There's never been a good government.

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The triumph of the philosophy...

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

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The majority cannot reason; i...

The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

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'What I believe' is a process...

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

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Revolution is indeed a violen...

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

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The greater the mental charla...

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

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I don't care if a man's theor...

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

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No, it is not because woman i...

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

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The custom of procuring abort...

The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

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Everywhere and always, since ...

Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.

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The history of progress is wr...

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

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I'd rather have roses on my t...

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

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To the moralist prostitution ...

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

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