Mikhail Bakunin Revolutionary Quotations

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

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

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

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.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.