In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
Mikhail BakuninThat in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe
Mikhail BakuninWhen the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
Mikhail Bakunin