In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners. Mikhail Bakunin More Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin More Quotes From Mikhail Bakunin The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity Mikhail Bakunin stars fire blood If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist. Mikhail Bakunin liberty causes way For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught. Mikhail Bakunin omnipotence competition europe He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. Mikhail Bakunin liberty humanity desire 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 despair passion ideas Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. Mikhail Bakunin individuality liberty vices That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe Mikhail Bakunin war country lying Theology is the science of the divine lie. Mikhail Bakunin atheism divine lying The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. Mikhail Bakunin intellect heart men Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought. Mikhail Bakunin battle wisdom two Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists. Mikhail Bakunin annihilation firsts I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. Mikhail Bakunin inability details development Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe. Mikhail Bakunin inspiration europe civilization We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact. Mikhail Bakunin atheism atheist facts [Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty. Mikhail Bakunin jealous liberty religion There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle. Mikhail Bakunin invisible principles names The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks. Mikhail Bakunin privilege would-be hands Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life. Mikhail Bakunin burning theory fire I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. Mikhail Bakunin bows special men Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos. Mikhail Bakunin political reading lying
