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God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Philosophical literature · Political literature

God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

In the original French

Car Dieu c'est sottise et lachete; Dieu c'est hypocrisie et mensonge; Dieu, c'est tyrannie et misere; Dieu, c'est le mal. Tant que l'humanite s'inclinera devant un autel, l'humanite, esclave des rois et des pretres, sera reprouvee.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The System of Economic Contradictions · 1846
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Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. Systeme des contradictions economiques ou Philosophie de la misere [The System of Economic Contractictions, or Philosophy of Misery]. Paris: Chez Guilla umin et Cie, 1846, ch. 8.

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