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.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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. 

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

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.