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We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
Anarchist
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Michael Bakunin
Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin
A. M. Bakunin
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
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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 there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
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As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
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Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.
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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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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.
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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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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
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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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The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
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In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
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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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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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Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
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The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.
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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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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
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