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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
Anarchist
Philosopher
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Michael Bakunin
Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin
A. M. Bakunin
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
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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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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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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
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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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...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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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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Theology is the science of the divine lie.
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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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Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.
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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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Throw a theory into the fire it only spoils life.
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We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.
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Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
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Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!
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The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity
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Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.
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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
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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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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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