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

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So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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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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