Mikhail Bakunin Slavery Quotations

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

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.