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A powerful, hostile state, which is in a constant state of war with all others and heavily oppresses its citizens in many ways, is spreading almost across all countries of Europe; it is Judaism. I do not believe, and I hope to demonstrate later, that it becomes so formidable because it forms a separate and tightly knit state, but rather because this state is built on the hatred of the entire human race.

A powerful, hostile state, which is in a constant state of war with all others and heavily oppresses its citizens in many ways, is spreading almost across all countries of Europe; it is Judaism. I do not believe, and I hope to demonstrate later, that it becomes so formidable because it forms a separate and tightly knit state, but rather because this state is built on the hatred of the entire human race.

Johann Fichte (German philosopher) “Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Urtheile des Publicums über die französische Revolution”, 1793 (Fichte is considered to be one of the founding figures of German idealism)