Vladimir Bukovsky Quotes

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

History is a bath of blood.

American blood will run in the streets.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

Tyranny in the modern world is most visible in German militarism and the Armenian massacres (By Turkey)

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

A more mischievous idea cannot exist, than that any degree of wickedness, violence, and oppression may prevail in a country, that the most abominable, murderous, and exterminating rebellions may rage in it, or the most atrocious and bloody tyranny may domineer, and that no neighboring power can take cognizance of either, or afford succor to the miserable sufferers.

To make mankind just and happy and creative and harmonious forever—what would be too high a price to pay for that? To make such an omelette, there is surely no limit to the number of eggs that should be broken—that was the faith of Lenin, of Trotsky, of Mao… of Pol Pot…. You declare that a given policy will make you happier, or freer or give you room to breathe: but I know you are mistaken. I know what you need, what all men need; and if there is resistance based on ignorance or malevolence, then it must be broken and hundreds of thousands may have to perish to make millions happy for all time.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.