Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Wanting to reform everything is the same thing as wanting to destroy everything.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

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

You can either have revolution or you can have revival.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

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

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

Look for me in the whirlwind.

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

It is sure to be a year on the brink of catastrophe or rejuvenation.

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