"They maintain that only a dictatorship - their……" — Mikhail Bakunin
"They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up."
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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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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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