Quote #60

Mikhail Bakunin Page at the Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia

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  1. Bakunin's social theory began, and almost ended, with liberty. Against the claims of liberty nothing else in his view was worth considerati…
  2. On the first day of a revolution, he is a perfect treasure; on the second, he ought to be shot.
  3. 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 wh…
  4. Women, different from man but not inferior to him, intelligent, hardworking and free as he is, should be declared his equal in all politica…
  5. Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
  6. To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity …
  7. The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
  8. The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

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