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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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

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. 

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

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.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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