When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

- Mikhail Bakunin

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own f…

- Mikhail Bakunin

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 of an anim…

- 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.

- Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but becau…

- Mikhail Bakunin

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

- Mikhail Bakunin

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

- Mikhail Bakunin

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

- Mikhail Bakunin

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes…

- Mikhail Bakunin