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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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