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Mikhail Bakunin Inspirational Quotes (60)

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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
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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.
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If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.
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We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.
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Theology is the science of the divine lie.
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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.
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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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.
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It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.
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There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church the third is by that of the social revolution.
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Religion is collective insanity.
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A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
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We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
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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.
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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
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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.
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We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.
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If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
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If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
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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.
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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.
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.
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