Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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.

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

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.