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Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Theology is the science of the divine lie.
— Mikhail Bakunin
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else ...
— Mikhail Bakunin
Anarchism is stateless socialism.
— Mikhail Bakunin
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
— Mikhail Bakunin
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Religion is collective insanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Religion is a collective insanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
— Mikhail Bakunin
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion
— Mikhail Bakunin
We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact ...
— Mikhail Bakunin
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.
— Mikhail Bakunin
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The urge to destroy is a creative urge.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
— Mikhail Bakunin
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!
— Mikhail Bakunin
Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
— Mikhail Bakunin
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.
— Mikhail Bakunin
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born
— Mikhail Bakunin
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Anarchism or freedom is the aim, while the state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses, they have first to be enslaved.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity
— Mikhail Bakunin
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Man is only truly free only among equally free men.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.
— Mikhail Bakunin
From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs
— Mikhail Bakunin
If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Every people, like every person, ... has a right to be itself.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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
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
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
— Mikhail Bakunin
It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another.
— Mikhail Bakunin
The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
— Mikhail Bakunin
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
— Mikhail Bakunin
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Every command slaps liberty in the face.
— 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
Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
— Mikhail Bakunin
