Mikhail Bakunin

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

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.