All Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of… Abolish
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or… Absolute
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not… Any
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Countless
- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. All
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. Authority
- The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. All
- The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried… Attracted
- No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true… Been
- If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other,… Absolutely
- It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one… All
- If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid… All
- All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had… All
- [Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile… Atheism
- As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. Earth
- Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason. Christianity
- The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its… Command
- In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. Conspiracy
- Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… All
- 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 the… Church