Revolutions never go backward.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

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. 

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt 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.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.

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.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.