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

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

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.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

All revolutions devour their own children.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.