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• Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

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  Tyrants, Idealism And Realism, Ideals

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

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• Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Wisdom, Two, Battle

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• ...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion ... [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Passion, Political Opinions

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• If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Slavery, States, Domination

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• [Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

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  Jealous, Religion, Liberty

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• That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Country, War, Lying

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heart, Atmosphere, Nihilism

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• 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

  Stars, Fire, Blood

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• We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Passion, Heart, Intellectual Arrogance

  "The Reaction in Germany" by Mikhail Bakunin (October 1842), signed "Jules Elysard"; as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Kings, Soldier, Atheism

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• The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Unique, Organization, Causes

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• Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Fire, Burning, Theory

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• If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, Way, Causes

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• The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

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  Hands, Would Be, Privilege

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• But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Honesty, Special, May

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.

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  Europe, Omnipotence, Competition

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• This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

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  Lying, Together Again, Two

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

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  Wish, Liberty, Needs

  Declaration signed by forty-seven anarchists on trial after the failure of their uprising at Lyons in 1870, in J. Morrison Davidson 'The Old and the New' (1890).

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• If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

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  Justice, Slave, Humans

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• Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Lying, Reading, Political

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

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• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  God, Jealous, Humanity

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

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• I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

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  Inability, Details, Development

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

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• 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

  Devil, Fiction, Infinity

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• He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Humanity, Desire, Liberty

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

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• We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Facts

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