Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams

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Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

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I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!

Karl Marx

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Marx, Karl. Kritik des Gothaer Programms [Critique of the Gotha Programme]. Berlin: Friedrich Engels, 1891, pt. 1.

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Marx, Karl. Critique of the Gotha Program, translated by Kevin B. Anderson. PM Press, 2022, pt. 1.

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Another quote from 1944

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.