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Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
Anarchist
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Michael Bakunin
Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin
A. M. Bakunin
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Pass
Remain
Musical
Everything
World
Ninth
Perish
Symphony

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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... 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.
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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
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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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The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.
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Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.
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Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
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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.
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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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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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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.
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As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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