Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

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

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

  

  Larry David
  • Write
  • Idiots
  • I Write

• Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women

• History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Free

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• To the last moment of his breathOn hope the wretch relies;And e'en the pang preceding deathBids expectation rise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Expectation

• The proletariat must seize state power in order to destroy the existing bourgeois state apparatus and, in a first phase, replace it with a quite different, proletarian, state apparatus, then in later phases set in motion a radical process, that of the destruction of the state.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Different
  • Power

• At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Long
  • Book
  • Boy

• They pronounce absurdly who thus speak, as the Pythagoreans assert: for at the same time they make the infinite to be essence, and distribute it into parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Essence

• You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Men
  • Mad

• The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Choices

• We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Me

• Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friend
  • Solitude

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

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Heaven
  • Excuse
  • Owners