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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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