Michel Bakunin

"Friendship withstands the pressure of principled disagreement."

"Family reproduces the power structures of society."

"Hope is the revolutionary's most dangerous weapon."

"Courage multiplies when shared among equals."

"Education should question rather than instruct."

"Truth survives suppression through eternal return."

"Freedom cannot be given; it must be seized."

"Peace without equality is oppression."

"Nature demonstrates principles of mutual aid."

"Art is the voice of the voiceless."

"The liberation of humanity requires the liberation of woman."

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not happier if the stick is called 'the People's Stick.'"

"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free."

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

"The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you've been living."

"In a revolutionary period, the working class becomes the bearer of civilization."

"Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice."

"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

"All religions have issued from the same need and the same causes."

"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man."

"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."

"God is the natural and rational cause of things."

"The history of humanity is the history of its gradual emancipation."

"Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world."

"Pluralism is the natural state of human society."

"Every dogma is an obstacle to the development of the human spirit."

"To rebel is a natural act for man."

"Authority is unjust in itself and must be combated everywhere."

"The only effective power is the power of collective action."

"Love is the most powerful force in the universe."