"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
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God
More From Mikhail Bakunin
- "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."
- "The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual."
- "Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
More In God
- "The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science."― Samuel Butler
- "It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."― Denis Diderot
- "It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents."― Samuel Butler