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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.

Mikhail Bakunin

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God Humanity Jealous
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.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Honesty May Special
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Essence Liberty Silly
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Desire Humanity Liberty
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Ideal Idealism Realism Tyrant
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Individuality Liberty Vice
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Jealous Liberty Religion
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable – and this is why we are the enemies of the State.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Class Enemy Slavery
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.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Book Humanity World
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Circle Defy God Men Whomsoever
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Equality Hype Lying
The peoples’ revolution… will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Liberty Principles Revolution
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Emotion Essential Freedom
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.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Deed Principles Propaganda

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.

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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.

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