Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

I would rather risk myself in an Indian fight than venture among these creatures after night. God deliver me from such constituents or from a party supported by such.

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

His descent was like nightfall.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.