The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions never go backward.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.