Bill Ayers Quotes

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

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.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

In the modern world, it is not the poor and the oppressed who have led the great revolutions and/or carried out the worst deeds of violence; rather, it is militant vanguards from among the better educated and more moneyed circles of society.

All revolutions invariably encourage bad characters and potential criminals.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".

Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

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

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

The “terror” of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.