Charles Bukowski Quotes

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

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

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Death to Pharaoh!