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Throw a theory into the fire it only spoils life.
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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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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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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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
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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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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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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
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For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.
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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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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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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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Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
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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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We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.
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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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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
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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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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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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.
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If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
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