All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

Revolutions never go backward.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.