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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolutions never go backward.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

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.

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.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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.