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

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

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

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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.

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.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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