A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
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Nationality: Russian Type: Revolutionary Born: May 30, 1814 Death: June 13, 1876 |
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“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'”
“I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.”