Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

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 belief and practice. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Slavery may change its form or its name – its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else’s work. In antiquity… slaves were, in all honesty, […]

I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.

All religions, with their gods, demigods, prophets, messiahs and saints, are the product of the fancy and credulity of men who have not yet reached the full development and complete personality of their intellectual powers.

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.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.