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Mikhail Bakunin (Philosopher)

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 love
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 war
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 men
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 art
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 art
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
— Mikhail Bakunin slavery
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 life
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
— Mikhail Bakunin politics
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 thought
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
— Mikhail Bakunin hope
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 reason
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 women
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 love
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
— Mikhail Bakunin work
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin crime
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin liberty
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
— Mikhail Bakunin world
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 respect
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
— Mikhail Bakunin freedom
Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
— Mikhail Bakunin man
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin men
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
— Mikhail Bakunin art
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
— Mikhail Bakunin action
From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.
— Mikhail Bakunin need
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin humanity

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