The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
Mikhail BakuninPolitical Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail BakuninEverything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
Mikhail BakuninThe state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.
Mikhail Bakunin