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Men Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
- By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have…
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting…
- The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
- 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…
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
- 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…
- 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 religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had…
- What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,…
- Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
- By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.
- Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
- But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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