Sophia Bardina
Sophia Illarionovna Bardina (15 May 1853 – 26 April 1883) was a Russian revolutionary.
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Quotes
[edit]- Prosecute us if you will, but I am convinced that the day will soon dawn when our sleepy and lazy society will wake up and be ashamed that it has allowed itself to be humiliated for so long … and when this day comes, society will avenge us. Go on prosecuting us, physical force is still on your side: but moral force and the force of historical progress is on ours: ours is the power of ideas, and ideas cannot be impaled on the points of bayonets.
- Speech as a defendant at the "Trial of the 50" in 1877. Reported in The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 33 (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1976) pp. 200–201
- Yes, we are anarchists, but, for us, anarchy does not signify disorder, but harmony in all social relations; for us, anarchy is nothing but the negation of oppressions which stifle the development of free societies.
- Reported in Alex Butterworth, The World That Never Was (Vintage, 2011) p. 171
