People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy - Mikhail Bakunin
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion - Mikhail Bakunin
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. - Mikhail Bakunin
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. - Mikhail Bakunin
I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. - Mikhail Bakunin
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge. - Mikhail Bakunin
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. - Mikhail Bakunin