Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

You should be prepared to be bombed back to the stone age.

War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Blow them [the Russians] off the face of the earth, quick, before they do the same to us. We haven't much time.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

War is the science of destruction.

Force is not a remedy.