If not us, who? If not now, when?

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

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

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

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.