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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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“A jealous lover of human liberty, and 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.”

Humanity Liberty Atheism Respect Abolish Voltaire Antitheism Abolish God

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“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.”

Men Humans Humanity Liberty Conditions He Man Men And Women Fellows Limitation Denial Acknowledge Confirmation

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.”

Ideas Humanity Sacrifice Blood Divinity Perpetual Vengeance Insatiable

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

“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.”

Men Done Humanity Steps Taken Impossible Strive Steps Forward Single Step Achieving The Impossible

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.”

Two Together Lying Humanity Wish Term Contradiction Persist Connecting Together Again

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.”

Matter Desire Humanity Liberty Worship Illusion Harbors Renounce Worship God

Book:Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin

Source: Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin

“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.”

Ifs Humans God Would Be Humanity Liberty Conditions Lovers Absolutes Admire Phrases Jealous Reverse Abolish

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“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.”

Men World Firsts Humanity Liberty Steps Atheism Ignorance Eternal Fruit Atheist Obedience Satan Ashamed Rebel Stamps Seals Brows Freethinker

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.”

World Real Beautiful Humanity Sublime Mixtures Monstrous

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

“No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.”

World Made Book Humanity Written Ready Theory Anarchy Seekers Heresy Save The World

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity”

Humanity Turns Stars Fire Blood Sea Streets Revolution Anarchy Liberated Moscow

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

About the Author

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

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God and the StateRelated source material

The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich BakuninRelated source material

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