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Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!
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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Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin
A. M. Bakunin
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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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