Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

All revolutions devour their own children.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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

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

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.

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

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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.