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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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"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Fact, Mind, Misleading

"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Possibility, Mind

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Adams, American Historian

Thought, Words

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Thought, Man, Words

"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Thought, Progress, Diversity, Freedom

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Logic

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts

"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Now, Problems

"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."

Scipio Africanus, Roman Soldier

Thought, Fool