Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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. 

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

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 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.