Mikhail Bakunin/criticism

Famous quotes containing the words mikhail bakunin, bakunin and/or criticism:

    “The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”
    —Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)

    “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.”
    —Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)

    “I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)