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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.