Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

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.

Revolutions are like onions. You peel away layer after layer.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

I can't for the life of me think of the link between Iraq and why a fruit vendor self-immolates in Tunisia and cracks this seemingly solid crust that turns out to be so fragile that societal unrest touches off.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

The powerful don't make revolutions

The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

If the Kaiser does not abdicate the social revolution is inevitable. I do not want it—in fact I hate it like sin.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

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

They preached equality in everything. And faithful to their doctrine, these forerunners of modern socialism robbed Mandarins and the rich of their property, which they distributed to the poor. The villages laboring under exorbitant tribute [taxes] were willing to swear allegiance.

Demonstrate before the palaces of the rich; demand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.