Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The peoples' revolution … will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“The glory and grandeur of a nation lie only in the development of its humanity. Its strength and inner vitality are measured… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It is not true that the freedom of one man is limited by that of other men. Man is really free to… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“One might rejoin that the State, representing as it does the public welfare or the common interest of all, curtails a part… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“I am a convinced advocate of economic and social equality because I know that, without it, liberty, justice, human dignity, morality, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“The freedom of each is therefore realizable only in the equality of all. The realization of freedom through equality, in principle and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost. And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
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