Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

If there is to be a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Those who are inclined to compromise can never make a revolution.

Every revolutionary movement ... proposes the greatest number of achievements possible.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

One does not make revolutions by halves

Grasp Revolution

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Ready for the revolution!

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.