Mikhail Bakunin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”

“From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.”

“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.”

“The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.”

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

“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”

“Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.”

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

“Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.”