Mikhail Bakunin Quotations

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.

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.

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

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

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

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.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else...

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

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.