Bakunin's social theory began, and almost ended, with liberty. Against the claims of liberty nothing else in his view was worth consideration at all. He attacked, remorselessly and without qualification, every institution that seemed to him to be inconsistent with liberty.

On the first day of a revolution, he is a perfect treasure; on the second, he ought to be shot.

No one can want to destroy without having some idea, true or false, of the order of things that should, according to him or her, replace what presently exists.

Women, different from man but not inferior to him, intelligent, hardworking and free as he is, should be declared his equal in all political and social rights.…

It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so. I simply asked that women should experience them truthfull…

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the be…