"What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's……" — Mikhail Bakunin
"What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say Yes if they are political and juridical laws, imposed by men upon men: whether violently by the right of force; whether by deceit and hypocrisy - in the name of religion or any doctrine whatever; or finally, by dint of the fiction, the democratic falsehood called universal suffrage."
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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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