Mikhail Bakunin
We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.Collection: Atheist
The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.Collection: Unique
Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos.Collection: Lying
Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.Collection: Doe
Religion is collective insanity.Collection: Insanity
For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.Collection: Europe
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.Collection: Inspiration
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.Collection: Names
The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.Collection: Two
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.Collection: Devil