Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Mikhail Bakunin (37)

Birth:	30th May, 1814
Death:	1st July, 1876
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Philosopher, Theorist

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• People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

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  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Misery, Tavern, Church

• Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Individual, Begin, Cease

• To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

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  Tags in Revolution, Masses, Idea, Despair

• The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

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  Tags in Destructiveness, Passion, Creativity

• Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Division, Labor

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individualism, Dignity, Goodness, Freely

• I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

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  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Censure, Freely

• 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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  Tags in Striving, Achieved, Single

• Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

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  Tags in Virtuous, Weakness

• 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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  Tags in Instinctive, Marx, Feels

• Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

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  Tags in Perish, Symphony, Music

• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Theology, Heaven, Tyranny

• Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

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  Tags in Fatal, Faith

• Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

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  Tags in Authority, Writers And Writing, Army

• A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

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  Tags in Boss, Abolished, Heaven, Excuse

• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Fraud, Pretense, Lies And Lying

• This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Separated, Lies

• 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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  Topics in God

  Tags in Illusions, Renounce, Childish

• Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

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  Tags in Friend, Full

• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existed, Admire