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

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.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

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.

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.

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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

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