Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

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• In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Honesty, Names, Age

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Government, Liberty, Majority

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• I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Diversity, Culture

  "God and the State" (1871)

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• A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Boss, Heaven, Earth

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1882.

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• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Lying, Equality, Hype

  "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.

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• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, And Love, Individual Morality

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• 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.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  People, Religion, Atheism

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• If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Class, Enemy, Slavery

  "Statism and Anarchy". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1873.

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• 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.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Self, Organization, People

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• From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Equality, Men, Views

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• The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Essentials

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

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• Children do not constitute anyone's property:
  they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society.
  They belong only to their own future freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Children, Parent, Society

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• 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.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Crush, Animal, Feet

  "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

  Mikhail Bakunin

  School, People, Sticks

  "Statism and Anarchy". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1873.

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• Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Firsts, Annihilation

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• A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strength, Strong, Speak

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Creative, Urges

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• Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Anarchy, Socialism, Anarchism

  "Stateless Socialism: Anarchism". "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin" by G.P. Maximoff, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1953.

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• Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancor. He has very little benevolence toward men and becomes... furious and... spiteful... when anyone dares question the omniscience of the divinity whom he adores, that is to say, Mr. Marx himself.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  God, Long, Heaven

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Mean, People

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• Religion is a collective insanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Insanity, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheist, Ignorance, Men

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Lying, Confused

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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