Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

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

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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. 

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

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.