“ The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. ”
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy
A jealous lover of human liberty, and 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.
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
