Mikhail Bakunin

“The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too.”

“The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.”

“A bourgeois anarchist is a contradiction in terms.”

“Every state is a military state.”

“The State is a vast slaughterhouse, and a graveyard, where all the living aspirations and forces of a country come to be slain and buried.”

“The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God.”

“It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men.”

“The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty, and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind, both in theory and practice.”

“To revolt is a natural tendency of life.”

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

“Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.”

“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, and socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.”

“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”

“The State is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity.”

“Authority is the negation of liberty.”

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

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”

“No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.”

“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.”

“I am a fanatical lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow.”