Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

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

I do not fear … rupture—rupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want a rupture with conformity … with half heartedness … with conservatism … with immobility. This rupture I believe necessary. This rupture I have betrothed myself to. This rupture the French people have approved. This rupture I will perform.

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

This is the age of disruption.

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.