If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. - Mikhail Bakunin

It is not true that the freedom of one man is limited by that of other men. Man is really free to the extent that his freedom, fully acknowledged and mirrored by the free consent of his fellowmen, finds confirmation and expansion in their liberty. Man is truly free only among equally free men; the slavery of even one human being violates humanity and negates the freedom of all.

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.

sola pluralidad de los dioses más o menos iguales en potencia era una garantía contra el absolutismo; perseguido por unos, se podía buscar la protección de los otros y el mal causado por un dios encontraba su compensación en el bien producido por otro. No existía, pues, en la mitología griega esa contradicción lógica y moralmente monstruosa, del bien y del mal, de la belleza y la fealdad, de la bondad y la maldad, del amor y el odio concentrados en una sola y misma persona, como sucede fatalmente en el dios del monoteísmo. Esa monstruosidad la encontramos por completo activa en el dios de los judíos y de los cristianos.