Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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

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

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 men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

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.

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

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

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

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

All revolutions devour their own children.