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Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm — which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of America farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.
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Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
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Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.
Aid | Labor | Organization | Spirit |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom — freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Culture | Labor | Technology | Time | Work |
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
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Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
The dreamer sometimes falls into the doldrums, but is said to emerge from them again. And the absent-minded person also makes up for it with bouts of perspicacity. Sometimes he is a person whose right to exist has a justification that is not always immediately obvious to you, or more usually, you may absent-mindedly allow it to slip from your mind. Someone who has been wandering about for a long time, tossed to and fro on a stormy sea, will in the end reach his destination. Someone who has seemed to be good for nothing, unable to fill any job, any appointment, will find one in the end and, energetic and capable, will prove himself quite different from what he seemed at first.
Labor | Melancholy | People |
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
This race of men came there from India, flying from the sword of the Magi, a race of plunderers and tyrants who laid waste their country, and they determined to lead a philosophic life in fellowship with one another.
Cleanliness | Labor |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.
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We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every man’s hand is out for pabulum and virile creativeness has given place to the patronizing favor of swollen bureaucracy.