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.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

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

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

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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. 

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

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.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.