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Mikhail Bakunin on Independence Day

1814–1876 Russia

← All quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

7 quotes

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

The Red Association (1870)

FREEDOM, the realization of freedom: who can deny that this is what today heads the agenda of history?

The Reaction in Germany (1842)

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

The Philosophy of Bakunin (1953)

We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.

The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism (1953)

I hate Communism because it is the negation of liberty and because humanity is for me unthinkable without liberty.

Michael Bakunin (1937)

I detest communism, because it is the negation of liberty and because I can conceive nothing human without liberty.

Freedom is the absolute right of every human being to seek no other sanction for his actions but his own conscience, to determine these actions solely by his own will, and consequently to owe his first responsibility to himself alone.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mikhail Bakunin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.