Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The individual is greater than the state.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.