Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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.

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.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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

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.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Revolutions are always verbose.