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" He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. "
Mikhail Bakunin
God
Matter
Liberty
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" 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. "
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" Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. "
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" If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. "
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" Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. "
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" I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. "
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" To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. "
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" The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks. "
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" I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. "
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" To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. "
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Every Day
" People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. "
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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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Questions
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" Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. "
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" 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. "
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" The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. "
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He
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" 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. "
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" Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. "
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" 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. "
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Boots
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