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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.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
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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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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.
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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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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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Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
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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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We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.
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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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We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
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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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Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
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Theology is the science of the divine lie.
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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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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
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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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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.
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Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
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Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
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