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The ruling class has always desired more efficient slaves. They bred them to be more efficient, and then found that efficiency in producing wealth also produced a desire on the part of the slave to enjoy more. In order to secure more, the slaves revolted.

— Kate Richards O'Hare Booze and Revolution (1915)

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An efficient man is a rebellious man. And anything that raises the efficiency of the working class will speed the revolution.

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A man whose brain is pickled in whiskey is of little value to the ruling class, and he is of inestimable less value to the working class. Efficiency oils the wheels of revolution.

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Prohibition has not reduced the sale of liquor, but if the ruling classes can succeed in cutting down drinking by liquor legislation, will it speed the coming revolution? Most assuredly!

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Sobriety means efficiency, and "efficiency" movements have in all ages been the incubators in which revolutions were hatched.

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Bolshevism may cause the goose-flesh of abject terror to prickle the spine of the "powers that prey," but it has no terrors for the working class.

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