The only justification of rebellion is success.

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 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.

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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

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

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

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.