{"author":"Mikhail Bakunin","author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["thought","will","idealism "],"id":8073,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["essential "],"id":8441,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["earth","tyranny","long "],"id":16126,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["impossible","moving-foreward","possible"],"id":27707,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"A jealous lover of human liberty, 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.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["god","humanity","liberty "],"id":37916,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","oppression"],"id":52902,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["humanity","liberty","matter "],"id":101844,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["destruction","passion"],"id":119224,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["atheism","atheist","god","noremorse"],"id":194909,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"},{"text":"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.","author":"Mikhail Bakunin","tags":["day","passion","every day "],"id":199443,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakunin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}