I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

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Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Russian

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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

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

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

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

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

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.

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

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

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

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.