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• I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

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  Real, Acceptance, People

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• 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

  Self, Delight, Satisfaction

  Mikhail Bakunin (1985). “Michael Bakunin: From out of the dustbin”

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• It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

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  Heart, Men, Mind

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• Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.

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  War, Passion, Views

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• Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

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  World, Way, Revolution

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

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• I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... 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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  Men, Humanity, Liberty

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin, translated by Sam Dolgoff in "Bakunin on Anarchy", 1971.

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• We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

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  Principles, Deeds, Propaganda

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• Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Anarchy, Socialism, Anarchism

  "Stateless Socialism: Anarchism". "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin" by G.P. Maximoff, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1953.

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

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  Atheist, Atheism, Nihilism

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

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  Hands, Appreciate, Merit

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• 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.

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  Long, Heaven, Atheism

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

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• Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

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  Evil, Morality, Human Nature

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• Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

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  Political, Intellectual, Slavery

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• Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

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  Enemy, Slavery, States

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• God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.

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  Men, Intellectual, Liberty

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• People’s State, is a yoke, on the one hand giving rise to despotism and on the other to slavery. They say that such a yoke – dictatorship is a transitional step towards achieving full freedom for the people: anarchism or freedom is the aim, while state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses of people, they have first to be enslaved!

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  Mean, Order, Firsts

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• If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

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  God, Men, Circles

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Men, Law, Liberty

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• A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

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  Powerful, Divine, Humans

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• The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, Principles, Revolution

  "Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organization of the International Brethren" by Mikhail Bakunin (1868), as quoted in "No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" edited by Daniel Guerin, 1965.

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• 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. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

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  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

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  Creative, Destruction, Urges

  "Die Reaktion in Deutschland," Jahrbuch fur Wissenschaft und Kunst (1842)

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• Theology is the science of the divine lie.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Lying, Atheism, Divine

  Mikhail Bakunin (1985). “Michael Bakunin: From out of the dustbin”

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• 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

  Passion, Ideas, Despair

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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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  Heart, Men, Intellect

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