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A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
Anarchist
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There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church the third is by that of the social revolution.
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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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Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
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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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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
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Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
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Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!
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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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Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
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Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
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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 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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Theology is the science of the divine lie.
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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 is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is 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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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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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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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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