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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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