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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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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. – Mikhail Bakunin

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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. – Mikhail Bakunin

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

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Revolution begins with the self, in the self. – Toni Cade Bambara

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

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The dead have been awakened — shall I sleep? The worlds at war with tyrants — shall I crouch? the harvests ripe — and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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