Quotes of Mikhail Bakunin - somelinesforyou

“ The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ 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. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

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

- Mikhail Bakunin

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

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ 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. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ Anarchism is "stateless socialism. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ 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

“ 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

“ Anarchism is "stateless socialism. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning.And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent, repent, the Kingdom of the Lord is at hand! ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all… ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ 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. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ 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

“ It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all… ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin
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