Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 14)

"Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"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, Revolutionary

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

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"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, Revolutionary

"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

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

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"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, Revolutionary

"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"We must work together to build a more peaceful and prosperous world, based on mutual respect and understanding"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"The rule of law is the foundation of a just and fair society, and we must work to uphold it at all times"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"We must never forget the sacrifices of our ancestors who fought for our freedom, and we must continue to fight to preserve it"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"A strong economy is essential for the well-being of the people, and we must do everything we can to create jobs and promote growth"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"We must have a government that is accountable to the people, not the other way around"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"Corruption is a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society, and we must do everything we can to root it out"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"The people must have the power to elect their leaders and hold them accountable for their actions"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is the right to know what is happening in the country"

Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President

"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"To understand is to perceive patterns"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher