“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.”
As quoted in Michael Bakunin (1937), E.H. Carr, p. 453
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