Alan Moore Quotes

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Change will always be violent.

Set Europe ablaze!

We should get inside, beat up the police and bust up the whole building. Where are your guns and bombs?

If there is one safe generalization in human affairs, it is that revolutions always destroy themselves.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

... apostles of anarchy, bloodshed and atheism.

I tell you that the new age has dawned, the age of holy anarchy.

If you intend to set the colonies aflame, take care to run away by the light of it.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.