Mikhail Bakunin

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#freedom

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#creative #destruction #passion

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#economically #heart #intellect #man #politically

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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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

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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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

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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

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