Quote by Mikhail Bakunin
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin

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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. – Mikhail Bakunin

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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. – Mikhail Bakunin

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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. – Mikhail Bakunin

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake. – Aristotle

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Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. – Scottish Proverb

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. – Aristotle

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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his countrys ruin! – Joseph Addison

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