"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as……" — Mikhail Bakunin

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot… - Mikhail Bakunin

"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."

— Mikhail Bakunin

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79 Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin has 79 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,…
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have…

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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle… — Aeschylus
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose… — Boyd Rice
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the… — Eric Hoffer
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the… — Thomas Jefferson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less… — Herbert Spencer
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but… — Charles Caleb Colton
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me… — Eric G. Wilson
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture… — Kurt Lewin
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and… — Aeschines
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of… — Wendell Phillips

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