I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — 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
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
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
Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of… — 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
It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with… — 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
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
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
