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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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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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying. – Mikhail Bakunin

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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

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What is a rebel? A man who says no. – Albert Camus

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When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. – English Proverb

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