Quotes About Mikhail Bakunin

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.

1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

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.

Religion is a collective insanity.

[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.

The savings of workers are fairy tales invented by bourgeois economists to lull their weak sentiment of justice.

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.

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.

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.