Quotes By Mikhail Bakunin

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

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.