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Our lords and princes ... make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the bird in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal."

— Thomas Müntzer

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For all knowledge contains within itself its diametrical opposite.

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The fear of God at the beginning of faith is an unbearable thing to human nature.

Exposure of False Faith (1524)

Thomas Müntzer will not pray to a dumb God, but rather to ones who speaks.

God speaks only in the suffering of creatures, a suffering that the hearts of the unbelievers do not have because they become more and more hardened.

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