"Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents……" — Mikhail Bakunin
"Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God."
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Mikhail Bakunin
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79 Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin has 79 quotes on this site.
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,…
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If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
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Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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