"People go to church for the same reasons……" — Mikhail Bakunin
"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."
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79 Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin
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- 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,…
- 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…
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,…