English translation of 'God and the State' (1876)

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 attack…

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.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on…

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something u…

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a fore…