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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

“Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.”

Men Want Impossible Fellows Fellow Man

Book:The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism

Source: The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism

“God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.”

Men Earth Causes Fiction Liberty Moral Atheism Masters Intellectual Slavery Positive Atheism Heavenly Sanctions

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“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

“Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancor. He has very little benevolence toward men and becomes... furious and... spiteful... when anyone dares question the omniscience of the divinity whom he adores, that is to say, Mr. Marx himself.”

Men Believe Heart Littles Doe Christian Religious Filled Dare Divinity Believe In God Adore Benevolence Furious Spiteful Omniscience Rancor

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.”

Men Mind Heart Position Privilege Characteristics Privileged Heart And Mind Depraved

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.”

Men Mean Responsibility Liberty Treated Surround

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“From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.”

Men Two Views Genius Equal Equality Point Of View Idiot Exception

Author:Mikhail 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

“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 Culture Human Beings Diversity Men And Women Social Justice Contrary Premises Anarchism Anarchist Confirmation

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

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

Men Heart Intellect Privileged Depraved

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.”

Men Humans Has Beens Law Individual Liberty Divine Collectives Laws Of Nature

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.”

Men Reason My Own Special Authority Bows Special Man

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich 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

“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.”

“If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.”

Ifs Men Doe God Slave Circles

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.”

Men Religion Atheism Development Saint Possession Fancy Prophet Faculty Messiah Demigods

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.”

“Man is only truly free only among equally free men.”

Men Free Man

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.”

Men Impossible Strive Steps Forward Single Step Achieving The Impossible

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

About the Author

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

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God and the StateRelated source material

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