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Mikhail Bakunin Quotes on Freedom

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher and one of the most colorful figures of nineteenth-century European radicalism. This page collects quotes attributed to Mikhail Bakunin on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:

    “If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”

  • Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:

    “The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”

  • Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:

    “I am free only when all human beings around me are equally free.”

  • Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:

    “Freedom without socialism is privilege; socialism without freedom is slavery.”

  • Attributed to Mikhail Bakunin:

    “Liberty is not the daughter, but the mother, of order.”