“For behind is our animality and before us our humanity; human light, the only thing that can warm and enlighten us, the only thing that can emancipate us, give us dignity, freedom, and happiness, and realize fraternity among us, is never at the beginning, but, relatively to the epoch in which we live, always at the end of history.” ReasonScienceAtheismEnlightenmentSocialismMaterialismAnarchism Book:God and the State Source: God and the State
“Every command slaps liberty in the face.” AnarchismLibertaireSocialist Libertarianism Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“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!” FirstsMeanStatesOrderMassAimDictatorshipAnarchism Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“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.” MenHumansCultureHuman BeingsDiversityMen And WomenSocial JusticeContraryPremisesAnarchismAnarchistConfirmation Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."” PeopleIfsSchoolSticksBeatenAnarchismAnarchist Author:Mikhail Bakunin