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

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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 spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.