Mikhail Bakunin Quotes about Lying

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

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

Mikhail Bakunin

Lying, Equality, Hype

"The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.

Mikhail Bakunin

Strong, Lying, Confused

"God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Mikhail Bakunin

Lying, Atheism, Divine

Mikhail Bakunin (1985). “Michael Bakunin: From out of the dustbin”

That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe

Mikhail Bakunin

Country, War, Lying

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Arthur Lehning (1973). “Selected writings [of] Michael Bakunin”, Jonathan Cape

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Mikhail Bakunin

Lying, Together Again, Two

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos.

Mikhail Bakunin

Lying, Reading, Political

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria