Quotes / Bomb-Throwing Anarchists

You see, I'm a guy of simple tastes. I enjoy, uh, dynamite, and gunpowder, and gasoline! And do you know what they all have in common? They're cheap.

— The Joker, The Dark Knight

Vaillant was a real Anarchist, that is to say, a person who hates people in general with the intensity which ordinary criminals reserve for their private enemies.

— The New York Times, The Latest Anarchist, referring to French anarchist August Vaillant, who bombed France's Chamber of Deputies in 1894.

"You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

— G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

"Dynamite is not only our best tool, but our best symbol. It is as perfect a symbol of us as is incense of the prayers of the Christians"

— The Secretary, The Man Who Was Thursday

Criminal anarchy is the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force or violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of government, or by any unlawful means.

—NRS 203.115, Nevada

A person who by speech or directly or indirectly by exhibition, distribution or promulgation of any written or printed document or paper or pictorial representation, shall advocate, advise, counsel or incite unlawful assault upon, or the killing of a public official, or the unlawful destruction of property, or the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the state, or who, at any meeting or in the presence of more than three persons in any place or in any manner, shall advise, advocate or counsel the violation of or unlawful refusal to obey a law of the state respecting the preservation of the peace and the protection of life or property shall be imprisoned not more than three years or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both.

—§3405. Promotion of anarchy, Vermont

"We calculate that bringing down the Neath will take..."
The iron-shelled black powder bombs beloved of the press are rather old fashioned. The modern anarchist favours dynamite.

—Fallen London

Gunpowder and Zeal: the Revolutionaries
Some call them the dynamite faction, but they're very far from united.

—Fallen London

And Mr. Vladimer developed his idea from on high, with scorn and condescension, displaying at the same time an amount of ignorance as to the real aims, thoughts, and methods of the revolutionary world which filled the silent Mr. Verloc with inward consternation. He confounded causes with effects more than was excusable; the most distinguished propagandists with impulsive bomb throwers; assumed organization where in the nature of things it could not exist, spoke of the social revolutionary party one moment as of a perfectly disciplined army, where the word of chiefs was supreme, and at another as if it has been the loosest association of desperate brigands that ever camped in a mountain gorge.

—The Secret Agent

"You know what? I'm feelin' merciful. If you guys all back off and let me blow up this country, you can live!"

—Technoblade during the Doomsday War, Dream SMP

"In an anarchist dwelling
So humble and so mean
Oh, smell the pungent odor
Of nitroglycerin

And while busy making fuses
And filling cans with nails
The little Slavic children
Set up this mournful wail

Well, its Sister Jenny's turn to throw the bomb;
Oh, well the last one, it was thrown by Brother Thom.
Oh, poor mother's aim is bad
And the cops, they all know dad
So it's Sister Jenny's turn to thrown the bomb."

—"The Anarchist's Hymn", The Settlers

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