"If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement."
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"As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!"
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"Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies."
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"Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack."
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"Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege."
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"All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution."
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"Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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"In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat."
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"Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."
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"Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full."
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"The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception."
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"Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people."
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"As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture."
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"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
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"Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other."
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"History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!"
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"Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service."
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"The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country."
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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction..."
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