Camille Desmoulins Quotes

I fought fire with oil.

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.

I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

Sharpen my bones into swords and make my flesh into Molotov cocktails

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

[On urban unrest:] The only way to get respect is to be willing to use violence.

There is a time for all things—a time to preach, and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight.

Government violence can only do one thing and that is to breed counter-violence.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

I like to throw bombs.

I'd rather fight than eat.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.