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• Religion is a collective insanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Insanity, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Creative, Urges

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• Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Nihilism, Way, Middle

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

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Revolution, Plans, Reactionaries

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• All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Sacrifice, Blood, Ideas

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Rights, Political, Important

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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.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Mean, People

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• Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Free Man

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• 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

  Atheist, Ignorance, Men

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Symphony, Musical, World

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• 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

  Book, Humanity, World

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1970). “God and the State”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, Brutality, Slavery

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Practice, Ideas, Justice

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• Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Common Sense, Sound, Christianity

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• 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

  Atheism, Doe, Boots

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strong, Lying, Confused

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Real, Humanity

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Wine, Two, Church

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• 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

  Taken, Men, Humanity

  Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin in Paolo Novaresio "The Explorers: From the Ancient World to the Present", October 1, 1996.

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• Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  People, Persons

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• Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Thinking, Rights

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Marshall Shatz (1990). “Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Effort, Generations, Individual

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1953). “The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism”, Free Pr

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• The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Real, Views, Broken

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

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• Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Law, Names

  "Rebellion".

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