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

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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