134 Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else...

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

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.