Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin

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• We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Work
  • Society
  • Best

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Why

• I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Work
  • Together

• There was such sanity in his voice; a politician’s sanity, as he sold his flock the wisdom of the bomb. This soulless certainty was more chilling than hysteria or malice.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Wisdom

• Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Equality

• Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Art
  • Society
  • Eyes

• Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Food

• Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life
  • Up

• When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

  

  Astro Teller
  • Work
  • Technology

• Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • World

• Being a leading man can come in many different forms.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Different

• I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Writing
  • May

• When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Good

• Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Support
  • Dictatorship
  • Traditions

• Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

  

  Walter Rodney
  • Today
  • Earth
  • Movement

• I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Personal business

• Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Up
  • Men
  • Law

• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Heaven
  • Atheism
  • Masters