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We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
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If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
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Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
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For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.
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