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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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I am only free to the extent that I recognize the humanity and respect the freedom of all men around me.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is an immense cemetery where all manifestations of individual life go to be buried.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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If society had not been invented, man would have continued to be a wild beast, or, what amounts to the same thing, a saint.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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In even the purest democracies, such as the United States and Switzerland, a privileged minority holds power over the enslaved majority.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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Uniformity is death; diversity is life.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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Powerful states can only be sustained by crime. Small states are virtuous only because they are weak.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.

Baldwin I

Baldwin I

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It takes twenty or more years of peace to make a man, and twenty seconds of war are enough to destroy him.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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Above talent are common values: discipline, love, good luck, but above all, tenacity.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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The war would end if the dead could come back.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never stopped imitating them.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Even good feelings, if excessively exalted, are capable of leading us to deplorable errors.