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"Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it."

Act, Communism, World

"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."

Thought, End

"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder."

Politics, Murder, State

"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."

Power, Victory, Military

"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."

Control, Birthcontrol, Hunger

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

Age, Truth, Freedom, Justice

"The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness."

Development, Consciousness, Evolution, Mind

"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."

Difference, Russia, States, Today

"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."

Politics, Communism, Myth, Party, Today

"This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?"

World,

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"Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Fact, Will

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, God, Gods, Universe

"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Christian, Rank

"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Church, Gentlemen, Heaven, Will

"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, God, Thought, Proof, Protestantism

"Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Religion, Machine, Man

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Religion, Missionaries

"Religion is not a conclusion of the reason."

Lyman Abbott, American Author

Religion, Reason

"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Religion, Church, Purity, State

"The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer."

Horatio Alger, American Author

Religion, Confession, Night, Prayer