Mikhail Bakunin

"Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society."

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct…"

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

"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 wis…"

"Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born"

"All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full posse…"

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