“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.” NeedsFactsWishLibertyConditionsFacultySincerely Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.” DoeConditionsInterfere Book:The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism Source: The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism
“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.” MenHumansHumanityLibertyConditionsHe ManMen And WomenFellowsLimitationDenialAcknowledgeConfirmation Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.” ThinkingWayHumansCharacterFactsFeelingsIndividualNationsExistencePrinciplesRightsConditionsParticularProductsEssenceUniversalHistoricalLocalsFeaturesNationalityDistinctive Book:Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy Source: Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy
“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.” IfsHumansGodWould BeHumanityLibertyConditionsLoversAbsolutesAdmirePhrasesJealousReverseAbolish Book:God and the State Source: God and the State
“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.” HumansEvilIndividualExistenceEnvironmentConditionsHuman NatureDependsCircumstancesMoralityPropensity Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“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.” IfsHumansJusticeHuman BeingsConditionsSocial JusticeSlave Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“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.” MenWayDoneIndividualSocialJusticePerfectLibertyMoralEnvironmentRightsConditionsSocial JusticeInequalityOne WayTriumphCollectivesIniquityEquality For AllSocial Environment Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“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” FirstsHeartMoralConditionsMaterialsInstinctAtmosphereNihilismPresent DayDay LifeMilieu Author:Mikhail Bakunin
