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Mikhail Bakunin, born on May 30, 1814, and died on July 1, 1876, was a significant thinker and revolutionary from Russia. His ideas had a profound impact on the later anarcho-syndicalist movement.

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Famous Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

“Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.”

Firsts Annihilation

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.”

Firsts Humans Two States Individual Crime Conscience Privilege Dare Commit Guilty Folds

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich 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!”

Firsts Mean States Order Mass Aim Dictatorship Anarchism

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.”

Firsts Long Earth Heaven Atheism Masters Slave Positive Atheism Supreme Tyranny Theology Revolt Phantoms Be A Slave

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.”

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Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.”

Way Firsts Two Three Social Church Revolution Thirds Wine Shops Routes Wretched Social Revolution Three Ways

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”

Firsts Heart Moral Conditions Materials Instinct Atmosphere Nihilism Present Day Day Life Milieu

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.”

Firsts Important Political Rights Political Rights

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

About the Author

Born: May 30, 1814
Died: July 1, 1876
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Quotes: 123

Books & Sources

God and the StateRelated source material

The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich BakuninRelated source material

Bakunin on anarchismRelated source material

The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific AnarchismRelated source material

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Michael Bakunin: From out of the dustbinRelated source material

Selected writings [of] Michael BakuninRelated source material

Bakunin: Statism and AnarchyRelated source material

Deus e o EstadoRelated source material

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