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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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• Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  War, Passion, Views

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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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• 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 upon men by men.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Law, Names

  "Rebellion".

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• Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Common Sense, Sound, Christianity

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• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Atheism

  "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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• 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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• I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Hands, Appreciate, Merit

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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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• 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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• Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Political, Intellectual, Slavery

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• Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Individuality, Liberty, Vices

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

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• Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Enemy, Slavery, States

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• If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  God, Men, Circles

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Law, Liberty

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• God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Intellectual, Liberty

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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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• A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Powerful, Divine, Humans

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• The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, Principles, Revolution

  "Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organization of the International Brethren" by Mikhail Bakunin (1868), as quoted in "No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" edited by Daniel Guerin, 1965.

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• The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Creative, Destruction, Urges

  "Die Reaktion in Deutschland," Jahrbuch fur Wissenschaft und Kunst (1842)

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• People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that such a yoke – dictatorship is a transitional step towards achieving full freedom for the people: anarchism or freedom is the aim, while state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses of people, they have first to be enslaved!

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Mean, Order, Firsts

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• It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Wisdom, Two, Battle

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• ...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion ... [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Passion, Political Opinions

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• If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Slavery, States, Domination

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