Mikhail Bakunin

satan rebel freethinker

“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.”

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

bakunin maxim

"If you took the most ardent revolutionary, gave him total power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself."

—Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

freedom morality dignity

"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it".

Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

striving impossible achieve possible

"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."

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

naturalistic equal exception idiot genius

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

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

boss heaven god abolish

"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished".

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

state domination slavery

"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery".

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

liberty man laws nature

"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".

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

powerful state crime weakness virtuous

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

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

state individual liberty ceases

"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."

― Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)