Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty – by ceasing to exist.

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• The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

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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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• The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

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• The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

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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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• If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

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• Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

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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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• 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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• I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

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• From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

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• From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

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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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• 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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• Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

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Mikhail Bakunin (39)

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

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