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

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.

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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

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

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.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.