Mikhail Bakunin Humanity Quotations

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

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

I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.