Respect for the freedom of others is the highest duty of man. To love this freedom and to serve it — such is the only virtue. That is the basis of all morality, and there can be no other.

Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) Russian anarchist, political theorist

The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism, 3.3 [ed. G. P. Maxmoff] (1953)