Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.
Mikhail BakuninEverything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
Mikhail BakuninBourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation.
Mikhail BakuninThe right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
Mikhail Bakunin