Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

Revolutions never go backward.

The only justification of rebellion is success.