Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakuninwas a Russian revolutionary anarchist, and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism, and one of the principal founders of the social anarchist tradition. Bakunin's enormous prestige as an activist made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, and he gained substantial influence among radicals throughout Russia and Europe...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionRevolutionary
Date of Birth30 May 1814
CountryRussian Federation
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!
Religion is a collective insanity.
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
Anarchism is "stateless socialism.
The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.