Mikhail Bakunin Quotes
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher and one of the most colorful figures of nineteenth-century European radicalism. After participation in the revolutions of 1848 and a long imprisonment in Russia, he escaped from Siberian exile and made his way back to Western Europe, where he engaged in long polemical conflicts with Marx within the First International. The quotes below are attributed to Mikhail Bakunin, organized by topic.
Mikhail Bakunin on Freedom
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:
“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:
“I am free only when all human beings around me are equally free.”
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:
“Freedom without socialism is privilege; socialism without freedom is slavery.”
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:
“Liberty is not the daughter, but the mother, of order.”
Mikhail Bakunin on God
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Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:
“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”