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Mikhail Bakunin

Notable quotes

“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.”
— "The Red Association" (1870)
“It is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the intellect and heart of man. The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.”
— As quoted in "Socialism" article of , 9th edition (1887), edited by with assistance of , Vol. 22, p. 216,
“No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.”
— As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937) by E.H. Carr, p. 175
“Every state, like every theology, assumes man to be fundamentally bad and wicked.”
— As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937), E.H. Carr, p. 453
“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.”
— As quoted in The Explorers (1996) by Paolo Novaresio
“The people should never be deceived, under any pretext or for any purpose. It would not only be criminal but detrimental to the revolutionary cause, for deception of any kind, by its very nature, is shortsighted, petty, narrow, always sewn with rotten threads, so that it inevitably tears and is exposed.”
— "Appendix A"

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