"To revolt is a natural tendency of life.……" — Mikhail Bakunin
"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."
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Mikhail Bakunin
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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…
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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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I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.
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A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in…
— Ammon Hennacy
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An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.
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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which…
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