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

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.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

Revolutions are always verbose.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.