Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Look for me in the whirlwind.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

This is the age of disruption.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

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

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.