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• Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Revolution, Plans, Reactionaries

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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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• Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  People, Persons

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• The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Silly, Essence, Liberty

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• Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheism, Doe, Boots

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Fellow Man, Want

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1953). “The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism”, Free Pr

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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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• By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Taken, Men, Humanity

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Sacrifice, Blood, Ideas

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

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• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Book, Humanity, World

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1970). “God and the State”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Practice, Ideas, Justice

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• The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Rights, Political, Important

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• Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Beautiful, Real, Humanity

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

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• Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Evil, Morality, Human Nature

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• Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Thinking, Rights

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Marshall Shatz (1990). “Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Powerful, Weakness, Littles

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• The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Views, Broken

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

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• Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Free Man

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• If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheist, Atheism, Nihilism

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

  Mikhail Bakunin

  World, Way, Revolution

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

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• By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Achieving The Impossible, Strive

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Principles, Deeds, Propaganda

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