Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

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

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other me...

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

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very larg...

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiousl...

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings;...

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one s...

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no r...

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respec...

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounc...

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we ha...

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I...

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no l...

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest ...

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, the...

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their...

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does ...

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cum...

We revolutionary anarchists are the enemies of all forms of State and State organisations ... wethin...

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule o...