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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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.

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

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

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

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.

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

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. 

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