Quotes By Mikhail Bakunin

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.

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.

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

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.