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…"

"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"

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

"I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion …"

"It is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the intellect and heart of man. The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved …"