Quote #39

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

More from Mikhail Bakunin

  1. If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
  2. Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.
  3. Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
  4. It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by …
  5. I am neither a scientist, nor a philosopher nor even a professional writer. I have written very little in my life time, and have only ever …
  6. It is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the intellect and heart of man. The privileged man, whether he …
  7. God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty o…
  8. Liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

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