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Mikhail Bakunin Quotes: People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
         

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.


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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.



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In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.



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If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.



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