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The great honor of Christianity, its incontestable merit, and the whole secret of its unprecedented and yet thoroughly legitimate triumph, lay in the fact that it appealed to that suffering and immense public to which the ancient world, a strict and cruel intellectual and political aristocracy, denied even the simplest rights of humanity. Otherwise it never could have spread.

— Mikhail Bakunin God and the State (1871)

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Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

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