All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

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

Revolutions never go backward.

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 are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

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

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