Among the greatest geniuses to date, few have actually done… - Mikhail Bakunin

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Among the greatest geniuses to date, few have actually done anything for the people. A nation’s geniuses are highly aristocratic, and everything they have done up to now has served only to educate, strengthen, and enrich the exploiting minority. The poor masses, forsaken and abused by everyone, have had to break their own martyr’s path to freedom and light by means of an infinite number of obscure and fruitless efforts.

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Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (Russian: Михаил Александрович Бакунин) (30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian political philosopher, anarchist, and noted atheist.

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Native Name: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Баку́нин

Alternative Names: Michael Bakunin • Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin • A. M. Bakunin • Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin • Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin • Bakunin

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No soy verdaderamente libre más que cuando todos lo seres humanos que me rodean, hombres y mujeres, son igualmente libres. La libertad de otro, lejos de ser un límite o la negación de mi libertad, es al contrario su condición necesaria y su confirmación

El temor de dios ‘dicen los teólogos’ es el comienzo de la sabiduría

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world, I cleave to no system, I am a true seeker.

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