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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. Mikhail Bakunin Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0
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 Russian Revolutionary More Mikhail Bakunin Quotes 0