“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society.” — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“If there is an undeniable fact, attested to a thousand times by experience, it is the corrupting effect produced by authority on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect… — 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
