“Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born” WorldWayBornRevolutionDestructionNew World Book:Bakunin on anarchism Source: Bakunin on anarchism
“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
“If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.” IfsWayHumansCausesLibertyOne WayGod Exists 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
“The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.” WayDoeStatesForceLibertyEssenceFingersLibertarianSillyCommandLibertarianismPersuasionCompulsionThrustUnfriendly Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“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.” WayFirstsTwoThreeSocialChurchRevolutionThirdsWineShopsRoutesWretchedSocial RevolutionThree Ways Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!” WayMiddleDestroyedNihilismDestroyersMiddle Way Author:Mikhail Bakunin
