Mikhail Bakunin
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“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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