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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
Russian Revolutionary
Born: May 30, 1814
Died: Jul 1, 1876
Freedom God Humanity Liberty Respect Will
Related authors: Che Guevara Leon Trotsky Marquis de Lafayette Nathan Hale Paul Revere Samuel Adams William Wallace
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Life Dignity Animal Natural Worm Relative Vitality General Tendency Foot Instinct Crushes Revolt Intensity Against Natural Tendency Turns Measured Even
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. Mikhail Bakunin
Freedom Lie Equality Political Lying Fraud Pretense Economic Without Political Freedom Want Workers
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Good Freedom Dignity Consists Morality Individual He Freely Forced Because Does Precisely Human Wants Human Dignity Loves
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. Mikhail Bakunin
Equality Men Rule Only Point Point Of View Exceptions Equal Geniuses Idiots View Naturalistic Two
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Freedom Women Men Free Men And Women Other On The Contrary Only Equally Am Limiting Truly Women Are Contrary Human Human Beings Confirmation Far Premise Beings Necessary
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. Mikhail Bakunin
God Tyranny Will Long First Master Earth Supreme Revolt Heaven Against Theology Phantom Slaves
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Man Impossible Single Those Striving Possible More Never Step Taken Step Forward Always Than Done Achieved Who Forward Believed
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Mikhail Bakunin
Creative Destruction Passion Also
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Happy People Church Free Few Minutes Misery Go Forget Same Tavern Anyway Themselves Reasons Imagine
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. Mikhail Bakunin
Man Heart He Economically Intellect Privileged Politically Whether Depraved
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. Mikhail Bakunin
Revolution Reactionary Makes Anyone After Plans Who
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. Mikhail Bakunin
Liberty Vice Versa State Individual Individual Liberty Versa Ceases Begins Where Vice
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Life Christ Dissolution Everything Finding Delight Through Divine He Self-Denial Look Material Dear Dear Friend His Friend Did Being Mankind Full Satisfaction
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Nature Man Liberty Will Collective Solely Consists Recognized Laws Individual Divine He Him Himself Because Foreign Imposed Been Whatsoever Any Human Them
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin
State Domination Turn Then Slavery
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Hope Day Every Day Passion Every Despair Anew Idea Masses Discover Discovered Revolutionary Utter
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. Mikhail Bakunin
God Humanity Liberty Matter Childish Worship Must About He Renounce His Bravely Harbor Who Illusions Desires
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Communism People Strong Will Nation State Find Parasitic Seeks Marx Always Existence Exists Labor Where Which Centralization Means Jewish
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. Mikhail Bakunin
Positive Knowledge Details Developments Am Very Any Human Inability Human Knowledge Large Grasp Large Portion Conscious Portion
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Mikhail Bakunin
Society Our Wretched Could Individual Develop Generations Countless Most Without Exist Cumulative Efforts Social Even Present
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Character Knowledge Respect Intelligence Criticism Freely Always Listen Censure Them Right
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. Mikhail Bakunin
Life Science Give Directed Results Division Well Industry His Labor Human Turn Human Life Each Receive Necessity Association
Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. Mikhail Bakunin
God Liberty Way One-Way Only Could He Exist Existed Human Therefore Serve
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. Mikhail Bakunin
Freedom Essential

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